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M0rqu1ng4 t1_ixv3yyk wrote

Reply to comment by paolog in TIL that in 1939 Ernest Vincent Wright wrote and published a 50,000 word novel, 'Gadsby' which does not contain the letter 'e' . A warehouse containing most copies of the book burned down. by Lupercali

E is also the most common letter in English usage - E, T, A, O, N, R, I, S and H in that order, if I recall correctly...

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Cetun t1_ixvzq20 wrote

There was a guy on Reddit who had a comet history years long that had never used the letter H or or F or something.

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aSimpleWardrobe t1_ixvskll wrote

I assume Q or Z are rarest?

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M0rqu1ng4 t1_ixvxse2 wrote

Yes, along with X and J. The numbers of tiles of each letter in Scrabble is a good indicator - different languages have different letter frequencies (and therefore different numbers of tiles in Scrabble).

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