Alphabet and Character Frequency: Czech (Čeština)
On this page you will find tables containing the frequencies of letters in the Czech language as well as information on the Czech alphabet (the letters used in the Czech language).
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Letter Frequencies of the language Czech
Below you can see a table showing the frequencies of letters, as they occur in the Czech language. This list was created with the character counter, which is integrated in the WordCreator. Basis of this list was a Czech text with 1,885,069 characters (315,462 words), 1,487,280 characters were used for the counting. The text consists of a good mix of different literary genres. Of course, if another text was used as a basis, the result would be slightly different.
The first list is sorted alphabetically according to the letters, the second list by the frequencies of the letters. Accordingly, the letters E, O and A are the most frequent letters in the Czech language.
| Letter | Frequency |
| A | 7.20 % |
| Á | 1.85 % |
| B | 2.17 % |
| C | 2.28 % |
| Č | 0.78 % |
| D | 3.73 % |
| Ď | 0.05 % |
| E | 8.41 % |
| Ě | 1.93 % |
| É | 1.21 % |
| F | 0.23 % |
| G | 0.26 % |
| H | 2.33 % |
| I | 4.01 % |
| Í | 2.53 % |
| J | 2.30 % |
| K | 3.55 % |
| L | 5.16 % |
| M | 3.28 % |
| N | 6.35 % |
| Ň | 0.04 % |
| O | 7.96 % |
| Ó | 0.03 % |
| P | 3.16 % |
| Q | 0.01 % |
| R | 3.40 % |
| Ř | 1.16 % |
| S | 4.49 % |
| Š | 0.82 % |
| T | 5.72 % |
| Ť | 0.03 % |
| U | 2.67 % |
| Ů | 0.38 % |
| Ú | 0.12 % |
| V | 3.94 % |
| W | 0.06 % |
| X | 0.09 % |
| Y | 2.41 % |
| Ý | 0.80 % |
| Z | 1.85 % |
| Ž | 1.22 % |
| Letter | Frequency |
| E | 8.41 % |
| O | 7.96 % |
| A | 7.20 % |
| N | 6.35 % |
| T | 5.72 % |
| L | 5.16 % |
| S | 4.49 % |
| I | 4.01 % |
| V | 3.94 % |
| D | 3.73 % |
| K | 3.55 % |
| R | 3.40 % |
| M | 3.28 % |
| P | 3.16 % |
| U | 2.67 % |
| Í | 2.53 % |
| Y | 2.41 % |
| H | 2.33 % |
| J | 2.30 % |
| C | 2.28 % |
| B | 2.17 % |
| Ě | 1.93 % |
| Á | 1.85 % |
| Z | 1.85 % |
| Ž | 1.22 % |
| É | 1.21 % |
| Ř | 1.16 % |
| Š | 0.82 % |
| Ý | 0.80 % |
| Č | 0.78 % |
| Ů | 0.38 % |
| G | 0.26 % |
| F | 0.23 % |
| Ú | 0.12 % |
| X | 0.09 % |
| W | 0.06 % |
| Ď | 0.05 % |
| Ň | 0.04 % |
| Ó | 0.03 % |
| Ť | 0.03 % |
| Q | 0.01 % |
Lists of Czech syllable frequencies can be found here.
Usage Note
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The Czech Alphabet
Here you can see all letters that occur in the Czech alphabet. The headings of each column are showing all basic letters of the Latin alphabet in bold. In the first row of the table, there are the letters from the Latin alphabet, which are also used in Czech. Underneath, all in Czech occurring forms derived from the basic Latin letters are listed.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
| Á | Č | Ď | Ě | Í | Ň | Ó | Ř | Š | Ť | Ů | Ý | Ž | |||||||||||||
| É | Ú |
The Czech alphabet knows 41 letters. It contains all 26 basic letters of the Latin alphabet and is supplemented by the 15 letters Á, Č, Ď, Ě, É, Í, Ň, Ó, Ř, Š, Ť, Ů, Ú, Ý and Ž.
The characters Ě, Ů and Ý never appear at the beginning of a word, so that they are only used when writing uppercase. For our counting, uppercase and lowercase letters were combined, so that the uppercase letters also represent the lowercase letters in the table. Because the diacritic characters often can not be displayed on web pages correctly, the are often omitted.