Alphabet and Character Frequency: Wolof
On this page you will find tables containing the frequencies of letters in the Wolof language as well as information on the Wolof alphabet (the letters used in the Wolof language).
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Letter Frequencies of the language Wolof
Below you can see a table showing the frequencies of letters, as they occur in the Wolof language. This list was created with the character counter, which is integrated in the WordCreator. Basis of this list was a Wolof text with 2,006,729 characters (400,198 words), 1,583,191 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 A, I and O are the most frequent letters in the Wolof language.
| Letter | Frequency |
| A | 14.77 % |
| À | 0.91 % |
| B | 3.13 % |
| C | 2.01 % |
| D | 3.17 % |
| E | 6.88 % |
| É | 0.49 % |
| Ë | 1.02 % |
| F | 1.20 % |
| G | 3.79 % |
| H | 0.28 % |
| I | 8.40 % |
| J | 1.82 % |
| K | 3.77 % |
| L | 5.05 % |
| M | 4.91 % |
| N | 7.13 % |
| Ñ | 1.29 % |
| Ŋ | 0.01 % |
| O | 7.41 % |
| Ó | 0.05 % |
| P | 0.84 % |
| Q | 0.13 % |
| R | 2.92 % |
| S | 2.26 % |
| T | 3.37 % |
| U | 5.84 % |
| V | 0.03 % |
| W | 2.09 % |
| X | 1.55 % |
| Y | 3.44 % |
| Z | 0.03 % |
| Letter | Frequency |
| A | 14.77 % |
| I | 8.40 % |
| O | 7.41 % |
| N | 7.13 % |
| E | 6.88 % |
| U | 5.84 % |
| L | 5.05 % |
| M | 4.91 % |
| G | 3.79 % |
| K | 3.77 % |
| Y | 3.44 % |
| T | 3.37 % |
| D | 3.17 % |
| B | 3.13 % |
| R | 2.92 % |
| S | 2.26 % |
| W | 2.09 % |
| C | 2.01 % |
| J | 1.82 % |
| X | 1.55 % |
| Ñ | 1.29 % |
| F | 1.20 % |
| Ë | 1.02 % |
| À | 0.91 % |
| P | 0.84 % |
| É | 0.49 % |
| H | 0.28 % |
| Q | 0.13 % |
| Ó | 0.05 % |
| V | 0.03 % |
| Z | 0.03 % |
| Ŋ | 0.01 % |
Lists of Wolof syllable frequencies can be found here.
Usage Note
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The Wolof Alphabet
Here you can see all letters that occur in the Wolof 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 Wolof. Underneath, all in Wolof 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 | É | Ñ | Ó | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ë | Ŋ |
The Wolof alphabet knows 32 letters. It contains all 26 basic letters of the Latin alphabet and is supplemented by the 6 letters À, É, Ë, Ñ, Ŋ and Ó. The letters H, V and Z only occur in loanwords.