Letter frequencies Some examples of letter frequency rankings in English: David Copperfield etaoinhsrdlmuwycfgpbvkxjqz Pride and Prejudice etaonihsrdlumcyfwgbpvkzxjq Wuthering Heights etaonihsrdlumcyfgwpbvkxjqz Vanity Fair etaonhisrdlumcwgfypbvkjqxz Gulliver's Travels etoanisrhdlumcfwygpbvkxjqz Alice in Wonderland etaoihnsrdluwgcymfpbkvqxjz British National Corpus etaoinsrhldcumfpgwybvkxjqz (90 million words of UK English) Brown corpus etaoinsrhldcumfpgwybvkxjqz (one million words of US English) Linotype keyboard e s c v x t h m b z a r f g fi o d w k fl i l y q ff n u p j ffi French: esaitnrulodmcpv e' qfgbhj a` x e` y e^ z c, o^ u` a^ u^ i^ oe k w i" e" u" ae n~ (novels, 500000 words; Engwall 1984) esaitnrulodcmp e' vqfbghj a` x e` y e^ z a^ c, i^ u` o^ u^ i" k e" w (TLF, 70 million words; Brunet 1981) Norwegian: erntsilakodgmvfupbh o/ j y aa ae c w z x (q) (newspapers, one million words; Heggstad 1982) Swedish: eantrsildomkgv a" fhup aa o" bcyjxwz e' q ... (newspapers, one million words; Allen 1970) Icelandic: anriestu dh lgmkfhvo a' th i' d j o' b y ae u' o" p e' y' c x w z q (500000 words; Magnusson, Briem 1991) Hungarian: eatlnskomzrig a' e' ydbvhj o: f u p o" o' c u: i' u' u" x w (q) (fiction, 500000 words; Furedi, Kelemen 1989) Also, but from limited samples: Russian: oeaintsvlrkdmpuy znak ya g b z ch j kh zh sh yu ts shch e f znak (yo) (Solzhenitsyn, 86000 words) oeaintsrvlkmdpuy ya znak g z b ch j zh kh yu sh ts shch e f znak yo (news, 25000 words) Turkish: aeinrlIkdtmsyuob u" s, zgvhc g~ c, p o" f j w x q (news, 73000 words) aeinlrIdktsymuob u" s, zgvhp c, g~ c o" f j w q x (news, 17000 words) Latin: eituasrnomcpldqbgvfhxyk (z) (jw) (Caesar, 52000 words) ietuasnmorcdlpqvbgfhxyz (k) (jw) (Seneca, 18000 words) eiuatsrnmocldpqbgfvxhyz (k) (jw) (Livy, 17000 words) Italian: aeiolnrtscdupmvgfbzhq o` a` u` i` e' e` o' y k w x j o^ (37000 words) German: enirsahtduclgmobwfkzv u" p a" ss j o" y q x ... (Effi Briest, 32000 words) enisrthdaulcgmowbfzkv u" p a" o" j y x q (Nietzsche, 72000 words) enirtsadhlucmgobfwkpzv a" u" o" ss j y x q (science, 4600 words) Danish: erntdasilgomkvfhubp aa ae j o/ y c w z ... x ... q (14000 words) Welsh: ayndreiloghwtfuscmbp a^ o^ y^ w^ j i" e^ a' q v i^ (kxz) (government document, 13000 words) Polish: aieonzwscrytkdpmjul l/ g b h a, e, o' z. s' c' n' f z' x v (q) (news, 11000 words) Greek: aeiontsupr e^ lk o^ mdg th ch ph b x z ps (Xenophon, 10000 words) Portuguese: aeosridntmucplvgfbhq a~ c, a' e' i' z j o' e^ x a` o~ y u' k a^ o^ w (news, 4500 words) Irish: aihnretscoldgumb a' f i' e' u' o' pvjwykqz (x) (news, 5400 words) ainhrtesocldgmub i' a' f e' p u' o' yvkwjq (xz) (news, 3400 words) Esperanto: aieonslrtkjudmpvgfb s^ g^ c u~ c^ z h j^ (qwxy) (5600 words) Dutch: enatriodslghvkmwubpjczfyx e" e' o' (q) (news, 2900 words) Czech: oeantivlsrdkup i' m c h a' z y j b r^ e^ e' c^ z^ y' s^ u~ g f u' n^ w d' o' x t' (q) (news, 2500 words) Spanish: aeosrnlidutcpmvgbfyhq o' j i' a' z n~ e' x u' k w (news, 1700 words) Gaelic: aihndercsgloutmb a` f p o` u` e' i` e` o' (jkqvwxyz) (1400 words) Finnish: enatrsildokgmvf aa uph a" cb o" jyxzw (q) (news, 1300 words)