McGurk effect

Quality:

McGurk effect - perceptual phenomenon that occurs when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound. Article “McGurk effect” in Simple English Wikipedia has 40.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Turkish Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “McGurk effect”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 366 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 137 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #470 in April 2006
• Global: #9681 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4790 in August 2013
• Global: #19938 in August 2013

There are 23 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Turkish (tr) McGurk etkisi		73.927
2	English (en) McGurk effect		71.9754
3	Thai (th) ปรากฏการณ์แม็คเกอร์ก		70.1243
4	Spanish (es) Efecto McGurk		42.3909
5	Simple English (simple) McGurk effect		40.9106
6	French (fr) Effet McGurk		31.0021
7	Polish (pl) Efekt McGurka		29.2796
8	Arabic (ar) تأثير مكجورك		27.8667
9	Ukrainian (uk) Ефект Мак-Гурка		23.4787
10	Basque (eu) McGurk efektua		23.4377

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) McGurk effect		1 481 980
2	Spanish (es) Efecto McGurk		231 579
3	German (de) McGurk-Effekt		192 159
4	Japanese (ja) マガーク効果		129 197
5	Russian (ru) Эффект Мак-Гурка		84 182
6	French (fr) Effet McGurk		68 966
7	Italian (it) Effetto McGurk		38 446
8	Dutch (nl) Mcgurkeffect		34 678
9	Swedish (sv) McGurk-effekten		20 132
10	Portuguese (pt) Efeito McGurk		14 727

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) McGurk effect		3 299
2	Simple English (simple) McGurk effect		455
3	Spanish (es) Efecto McGurk		439
4	German (de) McGurk-Effekt		419
5	Russian (ru) Эффект Мак-Гурка		378
6	Japanese (ja) マガーク効果		298
7	French (fr) Effet McGurk		163
8	Korean (ko) 맥거크 효과		141
9	Italian (it) Effetto McGurk		136
10	Polish (pl) Efekt McGurka		84

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) McGurk effect		123
2	German (de) McGurk-Effekt		37
3	Dutch (nl) Mcgurkeffect		33
4	French (fr) Effet McGurk		31
5	Swedish (sv) McGurk-effekten		19
6	Italian (it) Effetto McGurk		17
7	Japanese (ja) マガーク効果		15
8	Simple English (simple) McGurk effect		15
9	Polish (pl) Efekt McGurka		13
10	Russian (ru) Эффект Мак-Гурка		13

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) تأثير مكجورك		0
2	Catalan (ca) Efecte McGurk		0
3	German (de) McGurk-Effekt		0
4	English (en) McGurk effect		0
5	Spanish (es) Efecto McGurk		0
6	Basque (eu) McGurk efektua		0
7	Persian (fa) اثر مک‌گرک		0
8	Finnish (fi) McGurk-efekti		0
9	French (fr) Effet McGurk		0
10	Hebrew (he) אפקט מקגורק		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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