Umlaut

Quality:

Germanic umlaut - metaphony in Germanic languages, occurring around 450–500, in which vowels are raised or fronted when the following syllable contains /i(ː)/ or /j/; e.g. Engl. foot → feet. Article “Umlaut” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.27 points.

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 “Umlaut”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 291 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 29 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 541 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1292 in March 2016
• Global: #755 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6469 in July 2011
• Global: #100257 in September 2010

There are 6 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) Germanic umlaut		64.4832
2	Spanish (es) Umlaut germánico		42.7046
3	Chinese (zh) 日耳曼語元音變音		24.2366
4	Indonesian (id) Umlaut dalam bahasa Jermanik		21.5384
5	Arabic (ar) مغيرة جرمانية		19.7534
6	Simple English (simple) Umlaut		5.2065

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Germanic umlaut		1 849 990
2	Chinese (zh) 日耳曼語元音變音		30 867
3	Simple English (simple) Umlaut		25 754
4	Indonesian (id) Umlaut dalam bahasa Jermanik		10 105
5	Arabic (ar) مغيرة جرمانية		3 006
6	Spanish (es) Umlaut germánico		985

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) Germanic umlaut		5 221
2	Simple English (simple) Umlaut		258
3	Chinese (zh) 日耳曼語元音變音		196
4	Spanish (es) Umlaut germánico		61
5	Indonesian (id) Umlaut dalam bahasa Jermanik		32
6	Arabic (ar) مغيرة جرمانية		14

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Germanic umlaut		248
2	Simple English (simple) Umlaut		17
3	Chinese (zh) 日耳曼語元音變音		9
4	Spanish (es) Umlaut germánico		7
5	Arabic (ar) مغيرة جرمانية		5
6	Indonesian (id) Umlaut dalam bahasa Jermanik		5

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) مغيرة جرمانية		1
2	English (en) Germanic umlaut		1
3	Spanish (es) Umlaut germánico		0
4	Indonesian (id) Umlaut dalam bahasa Jermanik		0
5	Simple English (simple) Umlaut		0
6	Chinese (zh) 日耳曼語元音變音		0

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

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