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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 (frequency).svg - Wikipedia

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    This image shows some kind of simple graph/chart that could be converted to a Wikichart. ... [.5: 26.5] set output "English letter frequency (alphabetic) ...

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

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    english-letter-frequency.gnuplot: 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. Scrabble letter distributions - Wikipedia

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    A popular story claims that Butts created an elaborate chart by studying the front page of The New York Times to create his final choice of letter distributions. [ 4 ] In 2004, Super Scrabble was launched.

  8. 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.

  9. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, ... The frequencies shown in the table may differ in practice according to the type of text. [9] Phonology