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Pie Chart of Punctuation Frequency in English Text
Last reviewed on 2026-05-22.
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In written English, commas and periods dominate by a wide margin — together they account for over 80% of all punctuation marks.
The data
- Comma — 47 %
- Period — 35 %
- Quotation mark — 6 %
- Apostrophe — 4 %
- Hyphen — 3 %
- Question mark — 1.5 %
- Colon — 1.5 %
- Other — 2 %
Source
Brown Corpus analysis.
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