Speed of sound

Quality:

Speed of sound - distance travelled during a unit of time by a sound wave propagating through an elastic medium. Article “Speed of sound” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 2144^th most popular in all topics.

The 8371^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5292^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6568^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Speed of sound”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2761 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8371^st place).

The article is cited 54 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8408 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #564 in April 2020
• Global: #239 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4503 in May 2022
• Global: #50 in October 2012

There are 53 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	German (de) Schallgeschwindigkeit		74.5955
2	English (en) Speed of sound		72.4147
3	Japanese (ja) 音速		47.2174
4	French (fr) Vitesse du son		44.6226
5	Portuguese (pt) Velocidade do som		38.2537
6	Ukrainian (uk) Швидкість звуку		35.5791
7	Vietnamese (vi) Tốc độ âm thanh		34.751
8	Catalan (ca) Velocitat del so		34.0367
9	Arabic (ar) سرعة الصوت		30.8895
10	Estonian (et) Helikiirus		30.719

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Speed of sound		20 143 369
2	Spanish (es) Velocidad del sonido		7 608 798
3	German (de) Schallgeschwindigkeit		5 649 429
4	Russian (ru) Скорость звука		4 013 864
5	French (fr) Vitesse du son		3 956 359
6	Japanese (ja) 音速		3 100 814
7	Italian (it) Velocità del suono		2 625 115
8	Polish (pl) Prędkość dźwięku		2 029 249
9	Portuguese (pt) Velocidade do som		1 718 609
10	Arabic (ar) سرعة الصوت		1 146 417

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) Speed of sound		43 460
2	Russian (ru) Скорость звука		13 503
3	Spanish (es) Velocidad del sonido		11 989
4	German (de) Schallgeschwindigkeit		11 202
5	French (fr) Vitesse du son		10 510
6	Persian (fa) سرعت صوت		8 646
7	Arabic (ar) سرعة الصوت		5 099
8	Japanese (ja) 音速		4 880
9	Polish (pl) Prędkość dźwięku		4 516
10	Portuguese (pt) Velocidade do som		4 190

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Speed of sound		755
2	German (de) Schallgeschwindigkeit		269
3	French (fr) Vitesse du son		192
4	Spanish (es) Velocidad del sonido		183
5	Dutch (nl) Geluidssnelheid		113
6	Italian (it) Velocità del suono		101
7	Hebrew (he) מהירות הקול		88
8	Russian (ru) Скорость звука		87
9	Japanese (ja) 音速		69
10	Hungarian (hu) Hangsebesség		57

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	German (de) Schallgeschwindigkeit		6
2	English (en) Speed of sound		3
3	Spanish (es) Velocidad del sonido		2
4	Persian (fa) سرعت صوت		1
5	Hebrew (he) מהירות הקול		1
6	Indonesian (id) Laju bunyi		1
7	Dutch (nl) Geluidssnelheid		1
8	Romanian (ro) Viteza sunetului		1
9	Thai (th) อัตราเร็วของเสียง		1
10	Arabic (ar) سرعة الصوت		0

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

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