The most frequently used alphabets in the english language are
Answers
All of these words contain 'E', which is the most commonly used letter in the alphabet. The second most common letter is T. A, I, N, O, and S tie for third.
Answer:
Samuel Morse (1791-1872), the inventor of Morse code, needed to know this so that he could assign the simplest codes to the most commonly used letters.
Explanation:
The figures he came up with were:
12,000 E 2,500 F
9,000 T 2,000 W, Y
8,000 A, I, N, O, S 1,700 G, P
6,400 H 1,600 B
6,200 R 1,200 V
4,400 D 800 K
4,000 L 500 Q
3,400 U 400 J, X
3,000 C, M 200 Z
This, however, gives the frequency of letters in English text, which is dominated by a limited number of common terms. In word games, the frequency of letters in English vocabulary, rather than word frequency, is typically more interesting. We analysed the letters found in the main entries of the Concise Oxford Dictionary (11th edition revised, 2004) and came up with the following table:
E 11.1607% 56.88 M 3.0129% 15.36
A 8.4966% 43.31 H 3.0034% 15.31
R 7.5809% 38.64 G 2.4705% 12.59
I 7.5448% 38.45 B 2.0720% 10.56
O 7.1635% 36.51 F 1.8121% 9.24
T 6.9509% 35.43 Y 1.7779% 9.06
N 6.6544% 33.92 W 1.2899% 6.57
S 5.7351% 29.23 K 1.1016% 5.61
L 5.4893% 27.98 V 1.0074% 5.13
C 4.5388% 23.13 X 0.2902% 1.48
U 3.6308% 18.51 Z 0.2722% 1.39
D 3.3844% 17.25 J 0.1965% 1.00
P 3.1671% 16.14 Q 0.1962% (1)
The third column shows proportions, with the least common letter (q) set to 1. In the formation of individual English words, the letter E is more than 56 times more prevalent than the letter Q.
Again, the frequency of letters at the commencement of words varies. There are more words in English that begin with the letter's' than with any other letter. (This is primarily due to clusters such as'sc,"sh,"sp,' and'st' acting almost like independent letters.) The letter 'e' appears roughly halfway down the list, while the letter 'x' appears last.
He did it by simply counting the number of letters in printer type sets.
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