What is the least used letter?

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Mon Apr 9 18:56:06 UTC 2007


On Apr 9, 2007, at 11:22 AM, David Borowitz wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequencies
>
> Z. If you don't believe it, it's quick and easy to count letter
> frequencies
> in large corpora.
>
> On 4/9/07, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I wonder what is the least used letter?

tom might have been wondering what the least used letter is *in
trademarked names* (or something similar).  this is a much harder
question to answer.

arnold

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