Alphabet and Character Frequency: Catalan (Català)
On this page you will find tables containing the frequencies of letters in the Catalan language as well as information on the Catalan alphabet (the letters used in the Catalan language).
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Letter Frequencies of the language Catalan
Below you can see a table showing the frequencies of letters, as they occur in the Catalan language. This list was created with the character counter, which is integrated in the WordCreator. Basis of this list was a Catalan text with 2,060,555 characters (377,351 words), 1,610,438 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, A and S are the most frequent letters in the Catalan language.
| Letter | Frequency |
| A | 13.04 % |
| À | 0.31 % |
| B | 1.48 % |
| C | 3.24 % |
| Ç | 0.12 % |
| D | 3.36 % |
| E | 13.18 % |
| É | 0.71 % |
| È | 0.32 % |
| F | 0.82 % |
| G | 1.24 % |
| H | 0.82 % |
| I | 6.26 % |
| Í | 0.22 % |
| Ï | 0.02 % |
| J | 0.39 % |
| K | 0.11 % |
| L | 6.41 % |
| M | 3.49 % |
| N | 6.20 % |
| O | 4.70 % |
| Ò | 0.26 % |
| Ó | 0.42 % |
| P | 2.93 % |
| Q | 1.27 % |
| R | 7.12 % |
| S | 7.94 % |
| T | 6.31 % |
| U | 4.12 % |
| Ü | 0.04 % |
| Ú | 0.11 % |
| V | 2.17 % |
| W | 0.04 % |
| X | 0.51 % |
| Y | 0.15 % |
| Z | 0.10 % |
| Letter | Frequency |
| E | 13.18 % |
| A | 13.04 % |
| S | 7.94 % |
| R | 7.12 % |
| L | 6.41 % |
| T | 6.31 % |
| I | 6.26 % |
| N | 6.20 % |
| O | 4.70 % |
| U | 4.12 % |
| M | 3.49 % |
| D | 3.36 % |
| C | 3.24 % |
| P | 2.93 % |
| V | 2.17 % |
| B | 1.48 % |
| Q | 1.27 % |
| G | 1.24 % |
| F | 0.82 % |
| H | 0.82 % |
| É | 0.71 % |
| X | 0.51 % |
| Ó | 0.42 % |
| J | 0.39 % |
| È | 0.32 % |
| À | 0.31 % |
| Ò | 0.26 % |
| Í | 0.22 % |
| Y | 0.15 % |
| Ç | 0.12 % |
| K | 0.11 % |
| Ú | 0.11 % |
| Z | 0.10 % |
| Ü | 0.04 % |
| W | 0.04 % |
| Ï | 0.02 % |
Lists of Catalan syllable frequencies can be found here.
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The Catalan Alphabet
Here you can see all letters that occur in the Catalan 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 Catalan. Underneath, all in Catalan 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 |
| À | Ç | É | Í | Ò | Ü | ||||||||||||||||||||
| È | Ï | Ó | Ú |
The Catalan alphabet knows 36 letters. It contains all 26 basic letters of the Latin alphabet and is supplemented by the 10 letters À, Ç, É, È, Í, Ï, Ò, Ó, Ü and Ú.