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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. Zipf's law - Wikipedia

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    A minimal explanation assumes that words are generated by monkeys typing randomly. If language is generated by a single monkey typing randomly, with fixed and nonzero probability of hitting each letter key or white space, then the words (letter strings separated by white spaces) produced by the monkey follows Zipf's law. [30]

  4. Frequency analysis - Wikipedia

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    For this example, uppercase letters are used to denote ciphertext, lowercase letters are used to denote plaintext (or guesses at such), and X~t is used to express a guess that ciphertext letter X represents the plaintext letter t. Eve could use frequency analysis to help solve the message along the following lines: counts of the letters in the ...

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

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    Storing graphs or charts as images makes it harder to change (correct or translate) them. Wikicharts also help making sure to be consistent in font and size. Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ македонски ∙ polski ∙ slovenščina ∙ +/−

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

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    The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ar.wikipedia.org تحليل التكرار; Usage on cy.wikipedia.org Seiffr Caesar; Usage on de.wikipedia.org

  7. Template:Letter frequencies in 11 languages - Wikipedia

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    Relative frequencies of letters in the English language and in other languages Polish language frequencies have been corrected because the shown values are calculated with punctuations Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox ( create | mirror ) and testcases ( create ) pages.

  8. Scrabble letter distributions - Wikipedia

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    The letters Q, X and Z are absent since these letters are very rare and only occur in foreign words. These letters and the foreign letters "Ä", "Ö" and "Ü", which are used in a few Norwegian words, can be played with a blank. C and W also occur only in foreign words, but they are not so rare, [35] so they were included.

  9. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    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 frequency table