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- From: nyelle@ccrs.emr.ca (Norman Yelle)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security
- Subject: Re: Letter Frequency
- Message-ID: <1992Oct15.140918.27296@emr1.emr.ca>
- Date: 15 Oct 92 14:09:18 GMT
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- In article <1big1qINNrnq@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland) writes:
- >I'm in dire need of a letter frequency chart for the English language. I
- >remember as a kid reading books on basic cryptanalysis and seeing these
- >charts of the most frequently used letter (like "E" is most often used,
- >then "S" or "R" or something, etc). I don't remember the order, but now
- >I need it. Anyone got a copy of a table of something like this online?
- >
- >If not, got a source where I can go look it up quick?
- >
-
- If you have an on-line copy of the dictionnary, then you can do the
- following:
-
- grep -i e /usr/dict/words | wc
-
- ... to find how many words contain the letter 'e'. You can do this for all
- 26 letters. This is the results I got with a dictionary of 25144 words:
-
- a 13190
- b 3862
- c 7204
- d 5324
- e 14835
- f 2342
- g 3756
- h 4844
- i 11428
- j 427
- k 1848
- l 8625
- m 5320
- n 10256
- o 10285
- p 4929
- q 377
- r 11533
- s 8700
- t 10599
- u 5989
- v 1848
- w 1907
- x 616
- y 3523
- z 380
-
- Norman.
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