The king of letters move over, other letters — the letter e reigns supreme With such a large number of speakers, it’s no surprise that certain letters are more commonly used than others Research, including helen fouché gaines' landmark text elementary cryptanalysis, shows that e is the most frequently used letter in english
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You'll find it in dictionary words and nearly every text you send your friends
Why is e so common?
Letter frequency what is the most used letter in the alphabet Analysis* of wordraiders’s full wordlists shows that the most common letter in the alphabet is the letter “e” The letter “e” has been shown to appear 11.51% of the time in all words analyzed The letter “s” ranks second (9.52%) and the letter “i” ranks third (9.01%).
Relative frequencies of letters by letter by frequency letter letter a e b t c a d o e i f n g s h h i r j d k l l c m u n m o w p f q g r y s p t b u v v k w j x x y q z z top 10 beginning of word letters letter t a i s o c m f p w top 10 end of word letters letter e s d t n y r o l f most common bigrams (in order) The most frequent letters analysis of large text corpora consistently reveals a clear hierarchy of letter frequency Generally, the top five most frequently occurring letters are e, t, a, o, and i However, the exact ranking and proportions can vary slightly depending on the specific corpus analyzed (e.g., literary texts versus technical manuals).
The english language is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, with over 1.5 billion speakers globally