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  2. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

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    The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...

  3. File:English letter frequency (alphabetic).svg - Wikipedia

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    english-letter-frequency.dat: "a" 8.167 1 "e" 12.702 1 "b" 1.492 2 "t" 9.056 2 "c" 2.782 3 "a" 8.167 3 "d" 4.253 4 "o" 7.507 4 "e" 12.702 5 "i" 6.9662 5 "f" 2.228 6 ...

  4. File:English letter frequency (frequency).svg - Wikipedia

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    set term svg set key off set style fill solid 1 border-1 set tics out nomirror set border 3 set xrange [.5: 26.5] set output "English letter frequency (alphabetic ...

  5. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    Basic English; Frequency analysis, the study of the frequency of letters or groups of letters; Letter frequencies; Oxford English Corpus; Swadesh list, a compilation of basic concepts for the purpose of historical-comparative linguistics; Zipf's law, a theory stating that the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in a ...

  6. Word list - Wikipedia

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    It includes the F.F.1 list with 1,500 high-frequency words, completed by a later F.F.2 list with 1,700 mid-frequency words, and the most used syntax rules. [11] It is claimed that 70 grammatical words constitute 50% of the communicatives sentence, [ 12 ] [ 13 ] while 3,680 words make about 95~98% of coverage. [ 14 ]

  7. Zipf's law - Wikipedia

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    This is the case for the frequency-rank plot of the first 10 million words of the English Wikipedia. In particular, the frequencies of the closed class of function words in English is better described with s lower than 1, while open-ended vocabulary growth with document size and corpus size require s greater than 1 for convergence of the ...

  8. Template:Language word order frequency - Wikipedia

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    English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. ... Frequency distribution of word order in languages surveyed by Russell S. Tomlin in the 1980s [1] [2. References

  9. Frequency analysis - Wikipedia

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    A typical distribution of letters in English language text. Weak ciphers do not sufficiently mask the distribution, and this might be exploited by a cryptanalyst to read the message. In cryptanalysis, frequency analysis (also known as counting letters) is the study of the frequency of letters or groups of letters in a ciphertext.