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21-Apr-2004, 00:52
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What are the most often used letters in the English language? Please give numbers from A to Z. Thank You, Geoffs. |
21-Apr-2004, 01:14
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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 |
21-Apr-2004, 01:17
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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 |
21-Apr-2004, 01:35
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'C' is apparently the most common letter at the beginning of words.  |
21-Apr-2004, 01:49
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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: |
21-Apr-2004, 09:21
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Is it? I'll go check my source. |
21-Apr-2004, 17:48
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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: |
21-Apr-2004, 22:29
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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.
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22-Apr-2004, 19:34
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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: |
23-Apr-2004, 00:20
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It's getting clear as mud. | | |
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