Sonic boom

Quality:

Sonic boom - sound associated with shock waves created when an object travels through the air faster than the speed of sound. Article “Sonic boom” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Sonic boom”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1141 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1079 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #594 in March 2005
• Global: #2731 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2759 in June 2009
• Global: #6815 in October 2012

There are 32 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	English (en) Sonic boom		52.3001
2	Turkish (tr) Sonik patlama		37.9895
3	Portuguese (pt) Estrondo sônico		31.3349
4	Tamil (ta) ஒலி முழக்கம்		30.2856
5	Italian (it) Boom sonico		28.0468
6	Vietnamese (vi) Tiếng nổ siêu thanh		27.5001
7	Malay (ms) Dentuman sonik		25.1585
8	Catalan (ca) Bang sònic		24.7217
9	French (fr) Bang supersonique		24.4241
10	Hebrew (he) בום על-קולי		24.2915

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sonic boom		7 123 192
2	Japanese (ja) ソニックブーム		1 858 013
3	Spanish (es) Explosión sónica		653 973
4	Italian (it) Boom sonico		638 819
5	Chinese (zh) 声爆		428 344
6	Polish (pl) Grom dźwiękowy		265 894
7	Arabic (ar) دوي اختراق حاجز الصوت		262 605
8	French (fr) Bang supersonique		254 801
9	Czech (cs) Aerodynamický třesk		210 759
10	German (de) Verdichtungsstoß		170 115

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) Sonic boom		16 978
2	Japanese (ja) ソニックブーム		3 507
3	Chinese (zh) 声爆		1 244
4	French (fr) Bang supersonique		932
5	Russian (ru) Звуковой удар		712
6	Simple English (simple) Sonic boom		663
7	Italian (it) Boom sonico		633
8	Polish (pl) Grom dźwiękowy		623
9	Czech (cs) Aerodynamický třesk		574
10	Arabic (ar) دوي اختراق حاجز الصوت		565

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sonic boom		565
2	Italian (it) Boom sonico		67
3	Japanese (ja) ソニックブーム		63
4	Hebrew (he) בום על-קולי		54
5	French (fr) Bang supersonique		50
6	Spanish (es) Explosión sónica		34
7	Czech (cs) Aerodynamický třesk		30
8	Chinese (zh) 声爆		27
9	German (de) Verdichtungsstoß		26
10	Polish (pl) Grom dźwiękowy		25

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	English (en) Sonic boom		3
2	Portuguese (pt) Estrondo sônico		1
3	Romanian (ro) Bang sonic		1
4	Turkish (tr) Sonik patlama		1
5	Arabic (ar) دوي اختراق حاجز الصوت		0
6	Catalan (ca) Bang sònic		0
7	Czech (cs) Aerodynamický třesk		0
8	German (de) Verdichtungsstoß		0
9	Spanish (es) Explosión sónica		0
10	Estonian (et) Ülehelipauk		0

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

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