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



 
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What do you think are the most and least frequently used letters in English? Thu Mar 29, 2007 22:24 pm  What do you think are the most and least frequently used letters in English?
 

what do you think are the most and least frequently used letters in English?
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letterz Thu Mar 29, 2007 22:30 pm  letterz
 

Most "E"
Least "Q"
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What do you think are the most and least frequently used letters in English? Fri Mar 30, 2007 15:48 pm  What do you think are the most and least frequently used letters in English?
 

Hi Alex,

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

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What do you think are the most and least frequently used letters in English? Fri Mar 30, 2007 15:58 pm  What do you think are the most and least frequently used letters in English?
 

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. Very Happy
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What do you think are the most and least frequently used letters in English? Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:38 am  What do you think are the most and least frequently used letters in English?
 

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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What do you think are the most and least frequently used letters in English? Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:58 am  What do you think are the most and least frequently used letters in English?
 

Hi,

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

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What do you think are the most and least frequently used letters in English? Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:39 pm  What do you think are the most and least frequently used letters in English?
 

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

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What do you think are the most and least frequently used letters in English? Sat Mar 31, 2007 14:03 pm  What do you think are the most and least frequently used letters in English?
 

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
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