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Most Common Letters of the Alphabet - Whammies

Type the 10 most common letters in the English language. Three mistakes ends the quiz.
Based on nearly 10,000 books from Project Gutenberg. Source.
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First submittedJanuary 5, 2025
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36 Comments
Maxibon
+20
Level 73
Jan 7, 2025
Nice quiz!

Just a suggestion, could the whammy icon be redesigned since it really isn't clear what they are. Perhaps they could be a pixelated heart?

Gademotsili99
+12
Level 61
Jan 7, 2025
Agreed. For a non Jetpunker, they may be confusing
fuanacdc
+12
Level 89
Jan 7, 2025
They appear to be some kind of hybrid between a space invader and the Tivo logo.
Elboy
+4
Level 75
Jan 9, 2025
I agree: a heart would make sense.
CrypticMessage
+4
Level 53
Jan 7, 2025
Great quiz! I had all the letters except for the last one and I used up all my "Whammies".
Tramp
+3
Level 79
Jan 7, 2025
No U? And H? Has Big Scrabble been conning us this whole time?
Speed4TheNeed
+6
Level 88
Jan 7, 2025
H is in there? U did surprise me as well.
mrputter
+7
Level 89
Jan 7, 2025
"ETAOIN SHRDLU"

(in that order)

LuckyCat
+2
Level 72
Jan 8, 2025
The most common English word is "the", causing H to be higher up.
MaxTheAxe
+1
Level 75
Jan 14, 2025
Came here to say the same thing! Once I remembered that, the quiz was a gimme.
stg
+6
Level 47
Jan 7, 2025
The way I learned it as a child, for purposes of code breaking, was, in order of frequency in normal english TEXT...

ETAONRISHDLFMUGY...and then the rest ending in X Q and Z in some order.

This has always served me well in any puzzles or trivia that involves letter frequency.

Scrabble is a bit off from this, since scrabble deals with WORDS, and in particular, CROSS ATTACHED words--not ENGLISH TEXT.

GlassMonkeyOLD
+1
Level 69
Jan 14, 2025
I got N because I know it's very common in Scrabble.
Xtrordinary
+1
Level 75
Jan 7, 2025
Second featured whammy quiz?
Dontforget
+1
Level 76
Jan 7, 2025
Is this a new quiz type? Or is it using the mechanics of a different quiz type?
LuckyCat
+3
Level 72
Jan 8, 2025
It's additional mechanics to a text quiz. You can use whammies as type-ins, so if the player types a specific word, they will lose a life.
Xtrordinary
+1
Level 75
Jan 8, 2025
Its been here for a month or two
cathlete
+2
Level 78
Jan 8, 2025
Second featured quiz with the word whammy(ies) in the title, yes. But this quiz was the first to feature whammies, ushering in its first introduction in late November.
stylus
+4
Level 79
Jan 8, 2025
i don't know if this can be changed per quiz or it's a feature of whammies in general, but i don't think entering the same whammy twice should lose you two lives - at least, not for this quiz. you haven't got three wrong answers, you've just typed one again by mistake (and here that's just one character so a lot easier to do) - maybe you haven't understood the rules, or missed the little symbol.

and you could argue that being vigilant to that sort of thing is part of the quiz, so i'm interested to hear what others would say, but to me it feels overly harsh

shbbbbbbbmm
+1
Level 67
Jan 9, 2025
Best time 1 second
vindsins
+1
Level 47
Jan 9, 2025
2 seconds first try :) i have memorized the order bc i play hangman a lot with my friend
loganite
+6
Level 93
Jan 9, 2025
Wheel of Fortune helped me, but it also gave me one whammy! ;)
personontheweb
+1
Level 41
Jan 10, 2025
got 'em all, but on second try
quizzicalguy
+3
Level 69
Jan 10, 2025
I missed HRD. Because this quiz is hard.
GlassMonkeyOLD
+1
Level 69
Jan 14, 2025
The and and helped me through this quiz.
Pharley
+2
Level 75
Jan 14, 2025
All letters of the alphabet are equally common... they all appear in it once...
Feech
+1
Level 53
Jan 14, 2025
Great quiz - thank you
EmreBozkurt
+1
Level 67
Jan 14, 2025
I hate this new "whammy" thing...
DomsWay
+1
Level 20
Jan 14, 2025
9/10 fun
partdavid
+3
Level 74
Jan 14, 2025
5 seconds, no whammies. Knowing Etaoin shrdlu! is useful for solving cryptograms and interesting for anyone passingly interested in publishing history.
guffyelegantscho
+1
Level 44
Jan 14, 2025
I misread the title, though it said words, and typed in The and got them all
Editormum
+2
Level 70
Jan 14, 2025
At last! My memorization of ETAOINSHRDLU forty years ago in typography class has come in handy!
txbdog
+1
Level 45
Jan 15, 2025
i just did all vowels and the wheel of fortune bonus round letters
HyddenRizz
+1
Level 67
Jan 15, 2025
I should always remember to read the description XD

Thought M, L, G, P would appear in more words than H but it's based on recurrence in text. I think M is the most common in the title of this quiz!

notarac
+1
Level 58
May 30, 2025
Got 100% in 0 seconds by sliding my finger across ASDERT whilst simultaneously pressing OIHN with my right hand
bxtterflyfx
+1
Level 74
Nov 6, 2025
Started off with "R, S, T, L, N, E" because of the Wheel of Fortune, and ended up getting half in like 5 seconds
carrotmonke2390
+1
Level 31
Feb 10, 2026
I wasn't expecting H
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