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Distribution of Words in English by First Letter(s)

I am interested by* how hard it is to guess where to open a dictionary to look up a word.

• * I say “by”, not “in”, deliberately. I think “in” implies that it is hard (which I feel it is, but I’m not sure), whereas “by” includes the possibility of whether it is hard (which I feel it is, but I’m not sure).

I’m considering an interactive dictionary “game” where you have to click to see where you think a letter would appear in the dictionary.

Before creating that, I’m just gathering some initial data and seeing what it looks like. There is Raw Data on Word Distribution. And a graph in an OpenDocument Spreadsheet.