QWERTZ Layout

By Xah Lee. Date: 2023-03-22.

2009-09-16

QWERTZ

german layout S4Qk — A variation of QWERTZ layout used in Germany. (Red colored are Dead Keys.) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Germany.svg]

QWERTZ layout and variant is used in Germany and central Europe (Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.)

It differs from QWERTY by swapping Y and Z.

Here is the frequency of these keys in German:

Z (1.13%) 20th most frequent.
Y (0.04%) 25th most frequent.

german letter frequency 34432 — German letter frequency [see Character Frequency Plot]

[see German Keyboard Layouts]

We see that both are not frequently used, and Y is almost never used.