The Spellman Spectrum measures the level of creativity and innovation in a translation. A low score on the scale indicates that a translation is true to the English original, while a high score suggests a translation that creates a new wizarding world of its own! Read here (and here) about how it works.

The scale is a work in progress and its algorithm is subject to revision over time. The percentage accompanying the score is the completeness of the rating for that particular translation (i.e., what percentage of data points have been evaluated). The most recent update to this page was on November 27, 2022.

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Albanian: Harry Potter dhe Guri Filozofal
Amik Kasoruho

91.3 (59.0% complete)

Azerbaijani: Harri Potter və fəlsəfə daşı
Fəxrəddin Ağazadə

22.0 (60.0% complete)

Bosnian: Harry Potter i Kamen Mudrosti
Mirjana Evtov

54.7 (60.0% complete)

Catalan: Harry Potter i la pedra filosofal
Laura Escorihuela Martínez

61.7 (65.7% complete)

Czech: Harry Potter a Kamen mudrců
Vladimir Medek

83.9 (65.7% complete)

Danish: Harry Potter og de Vises Sten
Hanna Lützen

77.4 (65.7% complete)

Dutch: Harry Potter en de Steen der Wijzen
Wiebe Buddingh’

95.9 (61.9% complete)

Finnish: Harry Potter ja viisasten kivi
Jaana Kapari-Jatta

86.7 (61.0% complete)

French: Harry Potter à l’école des sorciers
Jean-François Ménard

96.6 (66.7% complete)

Frisian: Harry Potter en de Stien fan ‘e Wizen
Jetske Bilker

91.1 (61.0% complete)

Galician: Harry Potter e a pedra filosofal
Marilar Aleixandre

17.8 (61.0% complete)

German: Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen
Klaus Fritz

56.3 (60.0% complete)

Hebrew: Harry Potter ha-Even haHochmīm (הארי פוטר ואבן החכמים)
Gili Bar-Hillel

56.0 (58.1% complete)

Hindi: Harry Potter aur Paras Patthar (हैरी पॉटर और पारस पत्थर)
Sudhir Dixit

45.0 (52.4% complete)

Icelandic: Harry Potter og viskusteinninn
Helga Haraldsdóttir

61.9 (65.3% complete)

Low German: Harry Potter un de Wunnersteen
Hartmut Cyriacks and Peter Nissen

40.4 (63.8% complete)

Luxembourgish: Den Harry Potter an den Alchimistesteen
Florence Berg

74.6 (59.0% complete)

Maori: Hare Pota me te Whatu Manapou
Leon Heketū Blake

94.1 (61.9% complete)

Norwegian: Harry Potter og de Vises Stein
Torstein Bugge Høverstad

99.4 (98.1% complete)

Occitan: Harry Potter e la pèira filosofau
Karina Richard Bòrdanava

87.0 (59.0% complete)

Polish: Harry Potter i Kamień Filozoficzny
Andrzej Polkowski

57.7 (75.2% complete)

Portuguese (Brazilian): Harry Potter e a pedra filosofal
Lia Wyler

56.3 (61.2% complete)

Portuguese (Lusitanian): Harry Potter e a pedra filosofal
Isabel Fraga

40.2 (61.2% complete)

Romanian: Harry Potter şi piatra filozofală
Ioana Iepureanu

68.6 (60.0% complete)

Romanian: Harry Potter şi piatra filosofală
Florin Bacin

74.3 (60.0% complete)

Scots: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stane
Matthew Fitt

73.2 (62.9% complete)

Spanish: Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal

22.0 (94.1%)

Slovak: Harry Potter a Kameň mudrcov
Jana Petrikovičová

48.9 (61.0% complete)

Turkish: Harry Potter: Büyülü Taş
Mustafa Bayındır

29.3 (43.8% complete)

Turkish: Harry Potter ve Felsefe Taşı
Ülkü Tamer

42.2(63.8% complete)

Urdu: Harry Potter aur Paras Patthar (ہیری پوٹر اور پارس پتھر)
Darakhshanda Asghar Khokhar

11.2 (52.4% complete)

Urdu: Harry Potter aur Paras Patthar ka Raaz (ہیری پوٹر اور پارس پتھر کا راز)
Moazzam Javed Bukhari

22.5 (52.4% complete)

Uyghur: Kharri Pottir
Alimjan Azat

42.1 (60.0% complete)

Yiddish: Harry Potter un der filosofisher shteyn (הערי פּאָטער און דער פֿילאָסאָפֿישער שטיין)
Arun Schaechter Viswanath

51.0 (48.6% complete)