Which is the English alphabet which has the maximum occurences in English, i.e. the most widely used?

Answer 1

The inventor of Morse code, Samuel Morse (1791-1872), needed to know this so that he could give the simplest codes to the most frequently used letters. He did it simply by counting the number of letters in sets of printers' type. The figures he came up with were: 12,000 E 2,500 F
9,000 T 2,000 W, Y
8,000 A, I, N, O, S 1,700 G, P
6,400 H 1,600 B
6,200 R 1,200 V
4,400 D 800 K
4,000 L 500 Q
3,400 U 400 J, X
3,000 C, M 200 Z


The only way to measure this is to analyse a large collection (or 'corpus') of texts, but lists based on different collections (or 'corpora') tend to disagree about even the top ten words in English. A rough top thirty, based on the Oxford English Corpus, might look something like this:

the
is
of
and
a
in
that
have
I
it
for
be
not
with
he
as
do
at
this
his
by
from
her
say

But you, for example, comes 8th in a list derived from the 'American Heritage' corpus (Carroll et al, 1971), 12th in a list based on the British National Corpus, 32nd in a list based on the 'LOB' (Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen) corpus (Hofland & Johansson 1982), and 33rd in a list based on the 'Brown' corpus (Francis & Kucera 1982).

Answer 2

there isn't such ingredient as an "english alphabet". there is the Latin alphabet. The romans conquered the international and the countries that did not had got here across the writing accompanied the Latin alphabet and altered on the desires of their Language. Russia and the Slavic countries(there isn't a u . s . named "Macedonia") are making use of the Cyrrilic alphabet which replaced into created via the Greek monk Cyrrilos. and of direction the Latin alphabet got here from the Greek Alphabet

Answer 3

The most commonly used letter in the alphabet is e. The most commonly used word is "the".

Answer 4

"A", I think.