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Letter frequency is the number of times letters of the alphabet appear on average in written language. Letter frequency analysis dates back to the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873), who formally developed the method to break ciphers .
"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 "n" 6.749 6 "g" 2.015 7 "s" 6.327 7 " h" 6.094 8 "h" 6.094 8 "i" 6.966 9 "r" 5.987 9 "j" 0.153 10 "d" 4.253 10 "k" 0.772 11 " l" 4.025 11 "l" 4.025 12 "c" 2.782 12 "m" 2.406 13 "u" 2.758 13 "n" 6.749 14 "m" 2.406 14 "o" 7.507 15 "w" 2.360 15 " p" 1.929 16 "f ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
A full English-language set of Scrabble tiles. Editions of the word board game Scrabble in different languages have differing letter distributions of the tiles, because the frequency of each letter of the alphabet is different for every language.
The ampersand (&) has sometimes appeared at the end of the English alphabet, as in Byrhtferð's list of letters in 1011. [2] & was regarded as the 27th letter of the English alphabet, as taught to children in the US and elsewhere. [vague] An example may be seen in M. B. Moore's 1863 book The Dixie Primer, for the Little Folks. [3]
The Phoenician alphabet had 22 letters, nineteen of which the Latin alphabet used, and the Greek alphabet, adapted c. 900 BCE, added four letters to those used in Phoenician. This Greek alphabet was the first to assign letters not only to consonant sounds, but also to vowels.