- 90% of the words in Turkish text end with only 11 of the letters in the alphabet.
- A large number of the letters in the alphabet are seen at the end of the words in small amounts (less than 1%).
- Frequencies are computed from Hurriyet and Zaman newspapers using columnist articles between 2001 and 2011.- The graph contains all letters with frequencies exceeding 0.001%.
- Note that letters w, x, q, and é are not part of the Turkish alphabet. They are used to write foreign words.
Data:
End of word letters in Turkish text.
Letter Frequency Letter Frequency
n 15.814% h 0.324%
e 13.198% f 0.313%
a 11.533% d 0.237%
r 11.367% o 0.217%
i 11.179% b 0.141%
ı 7.690% v 0.124%
k 6.714% î 0.076%
u 4.092% g 0.070%
m 3.624% â 0.061%
z 2.716% ğ 0.054%
l 2.515% j 0.037%
t 2.179% c 0.032%
ş 1.482% w 0.025%
p 1.196% x 0.025%
ü 1.075% ö 0.003%
s 0.645% û 0.001%
ç 0.625% q 0.001%
y 0.612% é 0.001%
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