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| Comparing Letter Frequency in Text versus Dictionary List of Words For US English |
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by Tom Zurinskas |
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| Data are from the 15.4M words counted for the top 5k words of |
| English by Collins Cobuild - about 90% of words in typical text pages |
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| Frequency of Letters for the top 5,000 words of US English compared to 15.4M word count ot same words in print |
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| Results |
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Letter E is mostly popular in both the dictionay list and count of printed words |
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Letter H has the highest differential between print and list frequencies. |
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Most frequent word "the" had 1M instances for g a big impact on T, H, and E |
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Letters in |
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Letters in |
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P minus L |
| rank P |
Print (P) |
% |
Dict List (L) |
rank L |
rank diff |
| 1 |
E |
12.70% |
11.00% |
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0 |
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T |
9.10% |
6.70% |
7 |
5 |
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A |
8.20% |
7.80% |
4 |
1 |
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O |
7.50% |
6.10% |
8 |
4 |
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I |
7.00% |
8.60% |
3 |
-2 |
| 6 |
N |
6.70% |
7.20% |
6 |
0 |
| 7 |
S |
6.30% |
8.70% |
2 |
-5 |
| 8 |
H |
6.10% |
2.30% |
16 |
8 |
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R |
6.00% |
7.30% |
5 |
-4 |
| 10 |
D |
4.30% |
3.80% |
11 |
1 |
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L |
4.00% |
5.30% |
9 |
-2 |
| 12 |
C |
2.80% |
4.00% |
10 |
-2 |
| 13 |
U |
2.80% |
3.30% |
12 |
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| 14 |
M |
2.40% |
2.70% |
15 |
1 |
| 15 |
W |
2.40% |
0.91% |
22 |
7 |
| 16 |
F |
2.20% |
1.40% |
19 |
3 |
| 17 |
G |
2.00% |
3.00% |
13 |
-4 |
| 18 |
Y |
2.00% |
1.60% |
18 |
0 |
| 19 |
P |
1.90% |
2.80% |
14 |
-5 |
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B |
1.50% |
2.00% |
17 |
-3 |
| 21 |
V |
0.98% |
1.00% |
20 |
-1 |
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K |
0.77% |
0.97% |
21 |
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J |
0.15% |
0.21% |
25 |
2 |
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X |
0.15% |
0.27% |
24 |
0 |
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Q |
0.10% |
0.19% |
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1 |
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Z |
0.07% |
0.44% |
23 |
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~100% |
~100% |
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