most often used letters

What are the most often used letters in the English language? Please give numbers from A to Z. Thank You, Geoffs.

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by Geoff

What are the most often used letters in the English language? Please give numbers from A to Z. Thank You, Geoffs.

This depends, to a great extent, on the sample size and the type of text that is analyzed. Here is one result:

Letter Frequency in the English Language
e t a o i n s r h l d c u m f p g w y b v k x j q z

More here:

http://deafandblind.com/word_frequency.htm

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by Geoff

What are the most often used letters in the English language? Please give numbers from A to Z. Thank You, Geoffs.

This is slightly different, from another source:

General Letter Frequencies
e 0.124167
t 0.0969225
a 0.0820011
i 0.0768052
n 0.0764055
o 0.0714095
s 0.0706768
r 0.0668132
l 0.0448308
d 0.0363709
h 0.0350386
c 0.0344391
u 0.028777
m 0.0281775
f 0.0235145
p 0.0203171
y 0.0189182
g 0.0181188
w 0.0135225
v 0.0124567
b 0.0106581
k 0.00393019
x 0.00219824
j 0.0019984
q 0.0009325
z 0.000599

http://www.central.edu/homepages/Lin...etterfreq.html

[Tdol]

'C' is apparently the most common letter at the beginning of words.

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by tdol

'C' is apparently the most common letter at the beginning of words.

Both of the sources I posted claim that it is "t". :wink:

[Tdol]

Is it? I'll go check my source.

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by tdol

Is it? I'll go check my source.

I don't have any independent data. My Webster's has more "c" pages than "t" pages, but that is very crude. :wink:

[RonBee]

Interesting. I thought the top five were E T A O N, but perhaps it has changed a bit (or I was mistaken). I believe the letter most often used to start a word is s.

:)

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by RonBee

Interesting. I thought the top five were E T A O N, but perhaps it has changed a bit (or I was mistaken). I believe the letter most often used to start a word is s.

:)

Hmmm. Webster's has more "s" pages than "c" or "t" pages. :wink:

[Tdol]

It's getting clear as mud.