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2006-06-29 15:58:08 · 5 answers · asked by farklemairgle1 1 in Education & Reference Trivia

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E scores first place, representing around 12% of all letters used in the English language!
In order of most frequent use to least frequent use, the letters appear to be:

E T A O I N S H R D L C U M W F G Y P B V K J X Q Z

The articles below offer more detail, and the first Wikipedia article includes pretty graphs. The last articles are about why keyboards have their keys in certain places...Enjoy!

2006-06-29 16:49:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Answering of the top of my head, the order for the first ten is roughly as follows:

E, T, A, O, N, R, I, S, H, D.

2006-06-29 23:04:09 · answer #2 · answered by Ѕємι~Мαđ ŠçїєŋŧιѕТ 6 · 0 0

E I A S T N L M

2006-06-29 23:35:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I know e is numero Uno...

2006-06-29 23:01:46 · answer #4 · answered by Andrew L 2 · 0 0

See this article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETAOIN_SHRDLU

2006-06-29 23:02:20 · answer #5 · answered by abcd 2 · 0 0

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