B Useful language statistics
Letter frequencies
Letter frequencies from other languages are available in the Wikipedia article “Letter frequency.”1 The most frequent letters, ordered by frequency, can be memorized with nonsense words such as the following:
- English: ETAOIN SHRDLU
- Spanish: EAOSR NIDLT
- French: ESAIT NRUOL
- German: ENISR ATDHU
- Italian: EAION LRTSC
Most frequent digraphs
| English | Spanish | French | German | Italian | |
| 1 | TH | DE | ES | ER | ER |
| 2 | HE | ES | LE | EN | ON |
| 3 | IN | EN | DE | CH | DI |
| 4 | ER | EL | EN | DE | EL |
| 5 | AN | LA | ON | EI | ES |
| 6 | RE | OS | NT |
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