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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. 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.

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

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  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. Scrabble letter distributions - Wikipedia

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    The letter X is also only used in loanwords, but it is not so rare, so it is included. The digraphs CH, DZ, and DŽ, although considered single letters in the Slovak alphabet, are played as pairs of letters. Since 2013, a new 112-tile set was introduced, including the letters Q and W: 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)

  7. File:The International Phonetic Alphabet (revised to 2015).pdf

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    Size of this JPG preview of this PDF file: ... English: The International Phonetic Alphabet (revised to 2015) ... (letter) Version of PDF format: 1.6

  8. Aristocrat Cipher - Wikipedia

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    The process of frequency analysis can be complicated, and it uses educated analysis of the frequency of letters in texts to declassify the key. By calculating the frequency distribution for the K2 Aristocrat and comparing it to the English Distribution, the translation can be estimated. [9] As seen, the most frequent letter is E, then T, etc.

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

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