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Can you name the most frequently used letters of the English alphabet?
created by
bearzfan
Enter a Letter in the box below
Correctly named Letters will show up below
Click any empty Frequency or Letter to answer for that location
Source:
Oxford Dictionaries
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Frequency
Letter
11.16%
8.50%
7.58%
7.54%
7.16%
6.95%
6.65%
Frequency
Letter
5.74%
5.49%
4.54%
3.63%
3.38%
3.17%
3.01%
Frequency
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3.00%
2.47%
2.07%
1.81%
1.78%
1.29%
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Letter Frequency Quiz
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chiborak
:
Oct 12th, 2009 at 04:59 GMT
7 points
man that was actually challenging
JayHankEdLyon
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Oct 12th, 2009 at 05:32 GMT
15 points
So there are two Vs in Scrabble and one K...why? Great quiz.
aloyscius
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Oct 12th, 2009 at 07:00 GMT
24 points
For the most common letters i was definitely thinking about Wheel of Fortune's "RSTLNE"
cuendillar
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Oct 12th, 2009 at 08:21 GMT
11 points
I'm officially stupid. I actually copy-pasted the answers I was sure would be somewhere, without realising that it's a lot easier to retype them rather than doing "Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C" and Ctrl-V on every row.
MichaelWilson
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Oct 12th, 2009 at 08:26 GMT
2 points
@aloyscius I was doing the same thing!
bmo1616
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Oct 12th, 2009 at 12:39 GMT
5 points
And to think J is one of the most popular first letters for names, interesting quiz!
HarryNJ
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Oct 12th, 2009 at 13:59 GMT
6 points
So much for good old ETAOIN SHRDLU.
andrea
:
Oct 12th, 2009 at 18:12 GMT
14 points
What the source provides is not what the quiz describes. It's the frequency of letters in words, not in text -- what you get if you count up letters in the dictionary. If you actually count up letters in real text, as you'd do for cryptanalysis, letters that appear in very common words are more heavily represented, and you get "good old ETAOIN SHURDLU".
Noname219
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Oct 12th, 2009 at 18:41 GMT
5 points
Two minutes was perfect.
karinaedge
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Oct 13th, 2009 at 01:48 GMT
3 points
cool :)
Masternachos
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Oct 13th, 2009 at 03:01 GMT
-3 points
You should do a quiz of the Communist letters...
chrisfk1995
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Oct 13th, 2009 at 17:53 GMT
2 points
Brilliant! I was on that for ages till i got most of it right! Real challenging!
wilzo
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Oct 16th, 2009 at 18:21 GMT
1 point
Surprised at J
brownowl
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Oct 16th, 2009 at 20:06 GMT
0 points
surprised C was so high, I always have trouble placing it in scrabble!
orbit
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Oct 17th, 2009 at 19:52 GMT
6 points
You need to retitle your quiz. Per andrea and your own source: This is not the frequency of letters in English text, it's the frequency of letters in English vocabulary, regardless of word frequency.
Sollair
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Mar 14th, 2011 at 16:20 GMT
1 point
Found the 10 first and then...
Purple_Parrot
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May 23rd, 2013 at 00:58 GMT
1 point
In kindergarten, we learned that sharing was caring. And then I see the letter "E" being all greedy here on this quiz...
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