What are the 5 most commonly used letters?

The five most common letters beginning words are “t,” “o,” “a,” “w,” and “b.” Even in Morse code, "e" is the most common letter in the English language.
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What are the 5 most common letters?

An analysis of the Concise Oxford Dictionary (9th Edition, 1995) found the 12 most common letters were:
  • O (7.16 percent)
  • T (6.95 percent)
  • N (6.65 percent)
  • S (5.74 percent)
  • L (5.49 percent)
  • C (4.54 percent)
  • U (3.63 percent)
  • D (3.38 percent)
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What letter is the most common?

E is everywhere. In an analysis of all 240,000 entries in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, OED editors found that the letter E appears in approximately 11% of all words in the common English vocabulary, about 6,000 more words than the runner-up letter, A.
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What are the 5 most used consonants?

This means the top most commonly used letters in 5-letter words (in terms of total frequency as well as average frequency) were the letters A, E, S, O, R, I, L, T, etc.
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What are the 10 most frequently used letters in English?

Letter Frequency

The most commonly used letters of the English language are e, t, a, i, o, n, s, h, and r. The letters that are most commonly found at the beginning of words are t, a, o, d, and w.
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Letters Ranked Most Common to Least Common



How many common 5 letter words are there?

As it turns out, the number varies widely. The Free Dictionary lists more than 158,000 words with five letters. The the Official Scrabble Dictionary (which allows some pretty obscure five-letter words), puts the number at about 9,000.
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How many 5 letter words are there?

According to Free Dictionary, there are 158,390 words with five letters. Volume 6 of Office's Scrabble Dictionary claims there are 8,996 available words with five letters while other sources claim that there are only 5,350 words that you can create with five letters in word games.
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Why is e the most common letter?

It's because English stole all its words from French. The pronunciation does not matter. As you say, half of the Es we don't even pronounce. And half of the rest we mispronounce because of the Great Vowel Shift.
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Is J the least used letter?

In dictionaries, J, Q, and Z are found the least, but some of the words are rarely used. And if you value the opinion of cryptologists (people who study secret codes and communication), X, Q, and Z make the fewest appearances in the writing scene.
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What is the least common letter?

As you can probably guess, the letter Z is the least commonly used letter in the English alphabet. (In American English, this letter is pronounced “zee.”) The letter Q is the second least commonly used letter. In English words, Q is almost always followed by the letter U.
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What is the longest word in the world?

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word entered in the most trusted English dictionaries.
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What is the most pleasing 5 letters word?

What's the most pleasing 5-letter word? SMILE...
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What 5 letter word starts with U?

5 letter words that start with U
  • udder.
  • uhlan.
  • uhuru.
  • ukase.
  • ulama.
  • ulans.
  • ulcer.
  • ulema.
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What are some unique 5 letter words?

11 unusual 5-letter words to kick off your next Wordle game
  • ADIEU. Adieu means the same as goodbye. ...
  • TARES. Any of various vetch plants, such as Vicia hirsuta (hairy tare) of Eurasia and North Africa.
  • SOARE. ...
  • DUCAT. ...
  • OUIJA. ...
  • CAROM. ...
  • ERGOT. ...
  • CRAIC.
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Is there a 5 letter word with all vowels?

Five-letter words that contain four vowels include:

AUREI. LOUIE. MIAOU. OUIJA.
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What 5 letter word starts with a?

5 letter words that start with A
  • aahed.
  • aalii.
  • aargh.
  • abaca.
  • abaci.
  • aback.
  • abaft.
  • abamp.
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What are Q words?

Some of the Q Words for Kids are quiz, quick, question, Queen, quest, quill, quart, quit, quirk, qualify, qualified, qualifier, quiet, quite, quietly, quail, queue, quarter, etc.
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What word has all 26 letters in it?

An English pangram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. The most well known English pangram is probably “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. My favorite pangram is “Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.”
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What are nice 5 words?

Find below some positive words that will inspire you for awesome words with 5 letters.
  • "A" : ADORE, AGILE, AGREE, ALERT, ALIVE, ALLOW, ALOHA, AMAZE, AMITY, AMPLE, AMPLY, AMUSE, ANGEL, ARDOR, AWARE.
  • "B" : BLESS, BLISS, BLOOM, BONUS.
  • "C" : CHAMP, CHARM, CLEAN, CLEAR.
  • "D" : DANDY, DREAM, DRIVE.
  • "E" : EAGER, ENJOY, EXTRA.
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What word takes 3 hours to say?

You will be surprised to know that the longest word in English has 1, 89,819 letters and it will take you three and a half hours to pronounce it correctly. This is a chemical name of titin, the largest known protein.
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Is there a word with 1000 letters?

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

It's a technical word referring to the lung disease more commonly known as silicosis.
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