French Letter Frequency

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French Letter Frequency

french letter frequency
French Letter Frequency
Plot by Character Frequency Plot

Source text french_frequence_source_text.txt.
The source text contains: • First 3864 characters from French translation of The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, translated by Charles Baudelaire. le_masque_de_la_mort_rouge.txt • First 4325 characters from french version of Alice In Wonderland.

e14.715%
s7.948%
a7.636%
i7.529%
t7.244%
n7.095%
r6.693%
u6.311%
o5.796%
l5.456%
d3.669%
c3.260%
m2.968%
p2.521%
v1.838%
é1.504%
q1.362%
f1.066%
h0.937%
b0.901%
g0.866%
j0.813%
y0.708%
à0.486%
x0.427%
z0.326%
è0.271%
ê0.218%
ç0.085%
k0.074%
û0.060%
ù0.058%
â0.051%
w0.049%
î0.045%
ô0.023%
œ0.018%
ë0.008%
ï0.005%

French Alphabet

French alphabet is the same as English, but with accent marks on some letters. They are

Àà Ââ Çç Éé Èè Êê Ëë Îî Ïï Ôô Ùù Ûû Üü Ÿÿ

and some ligatures:

Æ æ Œ œ

é is used 1.504%. à is used 0.486%. è is used 0.271%. others are all less.

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french azerty on french heatmap Wsy
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french qwerty heatmap D3K
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french dvorak heatmap Gq6
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french colemak heatmap 78P

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