| Truespel analysis of "ough" frequencies | ||||
| The letter string "ough" is analyzed with truespel phonetics | ||||
| for the top 5,000 words of English (US accent) in print. | ||||
| This letter string is a little rare showing up in about 0.5% of | ||||
| the words on a typical printed page (69k/15,400k) | ||||
| Results show that the most popular sound is ~au (as in "laud" | ||||
| "law" "thought"). | ||||
| sounds | instances | % | words | % |
| ~au | 28,340 | 41% | 8 | 50% |
| ~ue | 18,713 | 27% | 2 | 13% |
| ~oe | 11,467 | 17% | 2 | 13% |
| ~u | 10,813 | 16% | 4 | 25% |
| Totals = | 69,333 | 100% | 16 | 100% |
| instance count | 69,832 | out of 15,392,580 instances total | ||
| word count | 16 | out of the top 5,000 words | ||
| tradspel | truespel | count | phoneme | |
| through | ~thhrue | 16,958 | ~ue | |
| thought | ~thhaut | 12,890 | ~au | |
| though | ~thoe | 11,467 | ~oe | |
| enough | ~innuf | 8,885 | ~u | |
| although | ~aultthoe | 5,216 | ~au | |
| brought | ~braut | 4,424 | ~au | |
| ought | ~aut | 1,868 | ~au | |
| throughout | ~thhruewwout | 1,755 | ~ue | |
| bought | ~baut | 1,532 | ~au | |
| thoughts | ~thhauts | 1,114 | ~au | |
| rough | ~ruf | 764 | ~u | |
| fought | ~faut | 654 | ~au | |
| sought | ~saut | 642 | ~au | |
| tough | ~tuf | 628 | ~u | |
| roughly | ~ruflee | 536 | ~u | |
| thoroughly | ~thheroelee | 499 | ~oe | |
by Tom Zurinskas, creator of truespel phonetics