Alphabet and Character Frequency: Romanian (română)
On this page you will find tables containing the frequencies of letters in the Romanian language as well as information on the Romanian alphabet (the letters used in the Romanian language).
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Letter Frequencies of the language Romanian
Below you can see a table showing the frequencies of letters, as they occur in the Romanian language. This list was created with the character counter, which is integrated in the WordCreator. Basis of this list was a Romanian text with 2,176,581 characters (340,241 words), 1,835,970 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, I and A are the most frequent letters in the Romanian language.
| Letter | Frequency |
| A | 10.06 % |
| Ă | 2.14 % |
| Â | 0.40 % |
| B | 0.93 % |
| C | 4.66 % |
| D | 3.35 % |
| E | 12.13 % |
| F | 0.80 % |
| G | 1.04 % |
| H | 0.40 % |
| I | 10.78 % |
| Î | 1.11 % |
| J | 0.27 % |
| K | 0.30 % |
| L | 5.45 % |
| M | 2.81 % |
| N | 6.62 % |
| O | 4.50 % |
| P | 2.98 % |
| Q | 0.01 % |
| R | 7.46 % |
| S | 4.00 % |
| Ș | 1.06 % |
| T | 6.65 % |
| Ț | 1.08 % |
| U | 5.80 % |
| V | 1.16 % |
| W | 0.04 % |
| X | 0.24 % |
| Y | 0.12 % |
| Z | 1.00 % |
| Letter | Frequency |
| E | 12.13 % |
| I | 10.78 % |
| A | 10.06 % |
| R | 7.46 % |
| T | 6.65 % |
| N | 6.62 % |
| U | 5.80 % |
| L | 5.45 % |
| C | 4.66 % |
| O | 4.50 % |
| S | 4.00 % |
| D | 3.35 % |
| P | 2.98 % |
| M | 2.81 % |
| Ă | 2.14 % |
| V | 1.16 % |
| Î | 1.11 % |
| Ț | 1.08 % |
| Ș | 1.06 % |
| G | 1.04 % |
| Z | 1.00 % |
| B | 0.93 % |
| F | 0.80 % |
| Â | 0.40 % |
| H | 0.40 % |
| K | 0.30 % |
| J | 0.27 % |
| X | 0.24 % |
| Y | 0.12 % |
| W | 0.04 % |
| Q | 0.01 % |
Lists of Romanian syllable frequencies can be found here.
Usage Note
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The Romanian Alphabet
Here you can see all letters that occur in the Romanian 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 Romanian. Underneath, all in Romanian 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 |
| Ă | Î | Ș | Ț | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Â |
The Romanian alphabet knows 31 letters. It contains all 26 basic letters of the Latin alphabet and is supplemented by the 5 letters Ă, Â, Î, Ș and Ț. The letters K, Q, W and Y only occur in loanwords. Before the introduction of Unicode 3.0 in 1999, the alternative letters Ş and Ţ were used instead of the letters Ș and Ț, since the characters Ș and Ț could otherwise not be displayed.
Originally, the Romanian alphabet consisted of 12 additional letters, but these were gradually abolished in the course of numerous reforms.