AZERTY Layout

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

AZERTY Layout

Belgian kbd
A Belgian AZERTY layout.

AZERTY layout is used in France and Belgium. It differs from QWERTY, mostly by swapping

AZERTY layout is the worst. the key swaps does not make it more efficient for French.

14.9 e 8.2 a 7.3 t 7.0 s 6.8 i 6.7 r 5.9 u 5.9 n 5.6 l 4.7 o 4.1 d 2.7 p 2.7 c 2.5 m 1.6 , 1.5 Γ© 1.4 v 1.1 f 1.0 g 1.0 b 1.0 = 0.9 . 0.9 q 0.7 ’ 0.6 h 0.5 Γ  0.4 y 0.4 ' 0.3 x 0.3 Γ¨ Total chars: 6653 Character Frequency %
French Letter Frequency
Plot by Character Frequency Plot

2015-01-01 addendum

Nic Falcon wrote to say that:

Just to notice : all words in French with a Z have a A or a E next to the Z. Moreover, you can't say β€œAlso consider the swapping of Z (0.136%) and W (0.114%). Their frequency of use is almost the same”. It's not true at all. Z is at the end of almost half of the french verbs when they are used with the β€œyou” subject.

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