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Pie Chart of Most Common English Letters
Last reviewed on 2026-05-22.
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Letter frequencies in English text follow a stable distribution dominated by E, T, A, O, I, N. These frequencies are remarkably consistent across large bodies of text (book corpora, news, web).
The data
- E — 12.49 %
- T — 9.28 %
- A — 8.04 %
- O — 7.64 %
- I — 7.57 %
- N — 7.23 %
- S — 6.51 %
- R — 6.28 %
- H — 5.05 %
- Other — 29.91 %
Source
Norvig English letter frequency analysis (Google Books corpus).
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