What do you think are the most and least frequently used letters in English?

[Aereal]

what do you think are the most and least frequently used letters in English?
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[Abr4xii]

Most "E"
Least "Q"

[NinaZara]

Hi Alex,

I think most used would be the vowels a e i o u and the rarest would be q, x.

Nina

[Yankee]

If you go by the point value of various letters in a game of Scrabble, then you might conclude that Q and Z are the least commonly used letters in English.

[Aereal]

this seems to be correct!

per 1000 letters there are:
132 E
104 T
82 A
80 O
...
...
9 V
4 K
1 X, J, Q and Z
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[Englishuser]

Hi,

I must say I am surprised about the letter 'j'.

Englishuser

[Conchita]

[Yankee]

Here are some interesting links:
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/frequency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequencies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions