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Character Frequency: Irish (Gaeilge)
Below you can see a table showing the frequencies of letters, as they occur in the Irish language. This list was created with the Unicode Counter, which is integrated in the WordCreator. Basis of this list were some Irish texts with together 2.079.887 characters (374.555 words), 1.633.489 characters were used for the counting. The texts consist of a good mix of different literary genres. Of course, if other texts were used as a basis, the result would be slightly different.
The list may only be used together with the publishing of the internet adress stefantrost.de and the prior consent of Stefan Trost (contact).
The left list is sorted according to the letters, the right list in accordance with the frequency of the letters. Accordingly, the letters A, I and H are the most common letters in the Irish language.
| Character | Frequency |
| A | 15,47% |
| Á | 1,65% |
| B | 2,48% |
| C | 4,26% |
| D | 3,75% |
| E | 6,01% |
| É | 1,66% |
| F | 1,59% |
| G | 3,43% |
| H | 7,87% |
| I | 9,14% |
| Í | 1,84% |
| L | 3,90% |
| M | 3,03% |
| N | 7,36% |
| O | 4,06% |
| Ó | 0,76% |
| P | 0,67% |
| R | 5,95% |
| S | 5,73% |
| T | 4,77% |
| U | 2,69% |
| Ú | 0,83% |
| Character | Frequency |
| A | 15,47% |
| I | 9,14% |
| H | 7,87% |
| N | 7,36% |
| E | 6,01% |
| R | 5,95% |
| S | 5,73% |
| T | 4,77% |
| C | 4,26% |
| O | 4,06% |
| L | 3,90% |
| D | 3,75% |
| G | 3,43% |
| M | 3,03% |
| U | 2,69% |
| B | 2,48% |
| Í | 1,84% |
| É | 1,66% |
| Á | 1,65% |
| F | 1,59% |
| Ú | 0,83% |
| Ó | 0,76% |
| P | 0,67% |
Usage Note
The list may only be used together with the publishing of the internet adress stefantrost.de and the prior consent of Stefan Trost (contact). If you need additional lists, for example in a different sorting or on the basis of another source, we can provide this list for only five euros. Simply write to us.
The Irish Alphabet
In this table you can see all letters which are used in the Irish alphabet. The headers of the columns show the basic letters from the Latin Alphabet. Thereunder you can see the letters from the Latin Alphabet which can be found in the Irish alphabet. Under this, you can see all letters derived from the basic Latin Alphabet.
| 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 | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | ||||||||
| Á | É | Í | Ó | Ú | |||||||||||||||||||||
The Irish Alphabet consits of 23 characters. These letters are differentiated in 5 short vowels (A, E, I, O and U), 5 long vowels (Á, É. Í, Ó and Ú) and 13 consonants. The consonants J, K, Q, V, W, X, Y and Z from the latin alphabet are only used in foreign and loan words.