Alphabet and Character Frequency: Lithuanian (Lietuvių)
On this page you will find tables containing the frequencies of letters in the Lithuanian language as well as information on the Lithuanian alphabet (the letters used in the Lithuanian language).
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Letter Frequencies of the language Lithuanian
Below you can see a table showing the frequencies of letters, as they occur in the Lithuanian language. This list was created with the character counter, which is integrated in the WordCreator. Basis of this list was a Lithuanian text with 1,997,876 characters (263,654 words), 1,735,400 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 I, A and S are the most frequent letters in the Lithuanian language.
| Letter | Frequency |
| A | 10.90 % |
| Ą | 0.72 % |
| B | 1.48 % |
| C | 0.56 % |
| Č | 0.36 % |
| D | 2.63 % |
| E | 5.64 % |
| Ę | 0.19 % |
| Ė | 1.47 % |
| F | 0.34 % |
| G | 1.73 % |
| H | 0.20 % |
| I | 13.69 % |
| Į | 0.57 % |
| Y | 1.37 % |
| J | 2.23 % |
| K | 4.19 % |
| L | 3.18 % |
| M | 3.77 % |
| N | 5.07 % |
| O | 6.38 % |
| P | 2.75 % |
| Q | < 0.01 % |
| R | 5.72 % |
| S | 8.01 % |
| Š | 0.96 % |
| T | 6.19 % |
| U | 4.38 % |
| Ų | 1.41 % |
| Ū | 0.40 % |
| V | 2.39 % |
| W | 0.02 % |
| X | 0.06 % |
| Z | 0.34 % |
| Ž | 0.76 % |
| Letter | Frequency |
| I | 13.69 % |
| A | 10.90 % |
| S | 8.01 % |
| O | 6.38 % |
| T | 6.19 % |
| R | 5.72 % |
| E | 5.64 % |
| N | 5.07 % |
| U | 4.38 % |
| K | 4.19 % |
| M | 3.77 % |
| L | 3.18 % |
| P | 2.75 % |
| D | 2.63 % |
| V | 2.39 % |
| J | 2.23 % |
| G | 1.73 % |
| B | 1.48 % |
| Ė | 1.47 % |
| Ų | 1.41 % |
| Y | 1.37 % |
| Š | 0.96 % |
| Ž | 0.76 % |
| Ą | 0.72 % |
| Į | 0.57 % |
| C | 0.56 % |
| Ū | 0.40 % |
| Č | 0.36 % |
| F | 0.34 % |
| Z | 0.34 % |
| H | 0.20 % |
| Ę | 0.19 % |
| X | 0.06 % |
| W | 0.02 % |
| Q | < 0.01 % |
Lists of Lithuanian syllable frequencies can be found here.
Usage Note
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The Lithuanian Alphabet
Here you can see all letters that occur in the Lithuanian 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 Lithuanian. Underneath, all in Lithuanian 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 |
| Ą | Č | Ę | Į | Š | Ų | Ž | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ė | Ū |
The Lithuanian alphabet knows 32 letters. It contains of 23 basic letters of the Latin alphabet and is supplemented by the 9 letters Ą, Č, Ę, Ė, Į, Š, Ų, Ū and Ž. The letters Q, W and X only occur in foreign-language words or in proper names.
In addition, the Lithuanian alphabet has some peculiarities regarding the sorting of its letters: Y is not placed between X and Z but between Į and J. The letters A and Ą, E, Ę and Ė as well as I, Į and Y are placed in the same place, while this is not the case for the letters Č and C, Š and S as well as Ž and Z.