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Pie Chart of the Least Common English Letters
Last reviewed on 2026-05-22.
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The 10 least-used letters in English (J, Q, X, Z, etc.) together account for less than 3% of letters in typical text. Z is the rarest at about 0.07%.
The data
- G — 2.02 %
- Y — 1.99 %
- P — 1.93 %
- B — 1.49 %
- V — 0.98 %
- K — 0.77 %
- J — 0.15 %
- X — 0.15 %
- Q — 0.1 %
- Z — 0.07 %
Source
Norvig English letter frequency analysis (Google Books corpus).
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