[Ads-l] vowels and consonants for US English

[Tom Zurinskas]

A database count of words in print was analyzed.  For the top 10k words of US English there were 16.3M word instances resulting in 62.3M phonemes.  (The top word "the" had 1 M instances,) Results found that 36% of the phonemes in typical text are vowels and 64% consonants.  The phonemes are ranked and an auto-phoneme counter is at https://bit.ly/35CGYt2
When the 26 letters of the alphabet were analyzed for the 62.3 M word instances, the 5.8 vowels ("y"= 80% vowels, 20% consonants) equaled 39% of the total letters and consonants were 61%.



Tom Zurinskas,  Originally from SW Conn 20 yrs,  college NE Tenn 3,  work SE NJ  33,  resides SE Florida 18...  truespel.com







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