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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. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The letter most commonly used in English is E. The least used letter is Z. The frequencies shown in the table may differ in practice according to the type of text ...

  4. V - Wikipedia

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    It is the sixth least frequently used letter in the English language, occurring in roughly 1% of words. v is the only letter that cannot be used to form an English two-letter word in the British [4] and Australian [5] versions of the game of Scrabble. It is one of only two letters (the other being c ) that cannot be used this way in the ...

  5. X - Wikipedia

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    X is the third least frequently used letter in English (after q and z ), with a frequency of about 0.15% in words. [4] There are very few English words that start with x (the fewest of any letter).

  6. 104 girl names that start with 'Q' - AOL

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    "Q" is the second least-used letter in the English alphabet — after Z. So, it's probably not surprising that, according to the Social Security Administration, a girl name that starts with "Q ...

  7. 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 ...

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  9. Q - Wikipedia

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    Q is the second least frequently used letter in the English language (after Z), with a frequency of just 0.1% in words. Q has the fourth fewest English words where it is the first letter, after X , Z , and Y .