Letter Frequencies in English
Relative frequencies of letters
| By letter | By frequency |
| Letter | Frequency | Letter | Frequency |
| a | 0.08167 | e | 0.12702 |
| b | 0.01492 | t | 0.09056 |
| c | 0.02782 | a | 0.08167 |
| d | 0.04253 | o | 0.07507 |
| e | 0.12702 | i | 0.06966 |
| f | 0.02228 | n | 0.06749 |
| g | 0.02015 | s | 0.06327 |
| h | 0.06094 | h | 0.06094 |
| i | 0.06966 | r | 0.05987 |
| j | 0.00153 | d | 0.04253 |
| k | 0.00772 | l | 0.04025 |
| l | 0.04025 | c | 0.02782 |
| m | 0.02406 | u | 0.02758 |
| n | 0.06749 | m | 0.02406 |
| o | 0.07507 | w | 0.02360 |
| p | 0.01929 | f | 0.02228 |
| q | 0.00095 | g | 0.02015 |
| r | 0.05987 | y | 0.01974 |
| s | 0.06327 | p | 0.01929 |
| t | 0.09056 | b | 0.01492 |
| u | 0.02758 | v | 0.00978 |
| v | 0.00978 | k | 0.00772 |
| w | 0.02360 | j | 0.00153 |
| x | 0.00150 | x | 0.00150 |
| y | 0.01974 | q | 0.00095 |
| z | 0.00074 | z | 0.00074 |
Top 10 beginning of word letters
| Letter | Frequency |
| t | 0.1594 |
| a | 0.155 |
| i | 0.0823 |
| s | 0.0775 |
| o | 0.0712 |
| c | 0.0597 |
| m | 0.0426 |
| f | 0.0408 |
| p | 0.040 |
| w | 0.0382 |
Top 10 end of word letters
| Letter | Frequency |
| e | 0.1917 |
| s | 0.1435 |
| d | 0.0923 |
| t | 0.0864 |
| n | 0.0786 |
| y | 0.0730 |
| r | 0.0693 |
| o | 0.0467 |
| l | 0.0456 |
| f | 0.0408 |
Most common bigrams (in order)
th, he, in, en, nt, re, er, an, ti, es, on, at, se, nd, or, ar, al, te, co, de, to, ra, et, ed, it, sa, em, ro.
Most common trigrams (in order)
the, and, tha, ent, ing, ion, tio, for, nde, has, nce, edt, tis, oft, sth, men
