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How Many Common, Unique Letters Do *You* Think There Are? - rikforto - 21-02-2026
What it says on the tin!
Three things:
- I know you don't know. I don't know. None of us know. But if you had to put down one number, not a range, what would it be?
- The threshold for "common" is up to you.
- Unique means they aren't variants of each other. I think it's pretty common to take n to be a final form of i, and so that would be one letter, not two. Ligatures don't count as a new letter, either.
Feel invited to also expand your answer into a range, explain your cutoff, list your alphabet, and generally explain yourself. I'm curious about all that too!
(If you're wondering my motivations, I was working on something and I found myself asserting that most of us think there are fewer than a certain number of letters. I wondered if that impression was, you know, true?)
RE: How Many Common, Unique Letters Do *You* Think There Are? - oshfdk - 21-02-2026
RE: How Many Common, Unique Letters Do *You* Think There Are? - Rafal - 21-02-2026
RE: How Many Common, Unique Letters Do *You* Think There Are? - nablator - 21-02-2026
RE: How Many Common, Unique Letters Do *You* Think There Are? - Rafal - 21-02-2026
RE: How Many Common, Unique Letters Do *You* Think There Are? - rikforto - 21-02-2026
RE: How Many Common, Unique Letters Do *You* Think There Are? - RadioFM - 21-02-2026
RE: How Many Common, Unique Letters Do *You* Think There Are? - Jorge_Stolfi - 21-02-2026
RE: How Many Common, Unique Letters Do *You* Think There Are? - rikforto - 21-02-2026
RE: How Many Common, Unique Letters Do *You* Think There Are? - Jorge_Stolfi - 22-02-2026