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     • Meet the “Smith” of the English alphabet—e is used more often than any other letter. It appears in 11 percent of all words, according to an analysis of more than 240,000 entries in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.
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   What is the last letter in alphabetical order?

   • “Z” may be the last letter in alphabetical order, but the last letter added to our alphabet was actually “J.” Tatiana Ayazo/Rd.com In the Roman alphabet, the English alphabet’s father, “J” wasn’t a letter. It was just a fancier way of writing the letter “I” called a swash.

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   What is the least common letter in the English alphabet?

   • One out of every 510 letters in English words is a Q, making it the least common letter in the English alphabet, according to an Oxford English Dictionary analysis. It is also the only letter not used in any U.S. state name. R is for… The letter R is sometimes referred to as the “ littera canina,” or canine letter.

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   How many letters are in the Old English alphabet?

   • The Old English alphabet was recorded in the year 1011 by a monk named Byrhtferð and included the 24 letters of the Latin alphabet (including ampersand) and 5 additional English letters: Long S (ſ), Eth (Ð and ð), Thorn (þ), Wynn (ƿ) and Ash (ᚫ; later Æ and æ).

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   What was the last letter added to the alphabet?

   • For example, you probably think the last letter added to the alphabet was “Z”—and yet, it actually wasn’t. Here are more interesting facts like this that will blow your mind. Yet that alphabet could have been drastically different. It used to have six more letters that were eventually dropped.

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   What is the last letter of the Latin alphabet?

   • Z, or z, is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the Latin alphabet. It is used in the modern English alphabet, in the alphabets of other Western European languages, and in others worldwide.

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   What are some interesting facts about the alphabet?

   • It's also a good enough reason to gather a few facts about one of the most significant inventions in human history. The English word alphabet comes to us, by way of Latin, from the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta.

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3. www.worldometers.info › languages › english-alphabetEnglish Alphabet - Worldometer

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   List of all 26 letters in the English Alphabet with names (words), pronunciation, number, capital and small letters from A to Z.

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Letter_frequencyLetter frequency - Wikipedia

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   Letter frequency is the number of times letters of the alphabet appear on average in written language. Letter frequency analysis dates back to the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi (c. 801 –873 AD), who formally developed the method to break ciphers.

   Letter	English	French[21]	German[22]
   a	8.167%	7.636%	6.516%
   b	1.492%	0.901%	1.886%
   c	2.782%	3.260%	2.732%
   d	4.253%	3.669%	5.076%

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7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ZZ - Wikipedia

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   Z, or z, is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the Latin alphabet. It is used in the modern English alphabet, in the alphabets of other Western European languages, and in others worldwide.

8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › English_alphabetEnglish alphabet - Wikipedia

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   Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century. During the ...

9. www.rd.com › article › last-letter-added-to-the-alphabetThe Last Letter Added to the English Alphabet Wasn't Z ...

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   Sep 27, 2024 · “Z” may be the last letter in alphabetical order, but it wasn't the last letter added to our alphabet. And that letter is only a few hundred years old.

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    Feb 15, 2024 · Believe it or not, the letter Z has not always been the last letter of the alphabet; in the Greek alphabet, it had a respectable place at number seven.

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    Jun 17, 2020 · Get facts about the English alphabet, including the origin of the word "alphabet" and the name of the sentence that uses all its letters.