![]() ![]() It has the first 6 paragraphs from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), but you can put you own source text in there.įind something from Shakespeare, or a political speech and see what it comes up with. Yes, I wrote something for you to play with. Using the same method I used groups of 3 Letters to decide on the 4th letter and got:Įither the sides or conversations in time toĪnd with 5 Letter frequencies: There was just in time it all seemed quite natural) īut to take out of time as she had not like to do Now, that looks good! By sampling from a real source we can get good results. To wondere started into the book about hear! Here is a sample: Either great into get very deep welled of it it, and look for the letter following "ei" (possibly "t").look through the sample text for every time "ei" appears,.Well, say I already have two letters (like "ei"). Why stop there? We can make tables of three letter frequencies or more. ![]() In fact we are not just making random words now, we are making random sentences! Higher Letter Frequencies nonsense, but almost like some strange language. Soacthake d imon binofowat oaten d heng wa well, here is a sample: the cur the bund hof arytowno d sheromasees asemedosouro f OK, let us start with a "t", and let us say we choose an "h" to make "th", then next we would use the "h"-row to choose another letter (maybe an "e" to make "the"), and so on. So, "h" occured 3197 times after a "t" ("th"). To illustrate this, I built up a Table of Two-Letter Frequencies (from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). "what is the frequency of letters that follow another letter"įor example, if we already have a "t", the next letter is very likely to be an "h" (making "th"). ![]() We can take the idea of Letter Frequency one step further by asking see if you can get lucky and find a real word:īut we can do better. (Great names if you are writing a science fiction novel!) Try For Yourself! and only one z), we can get output like this: elnao etgov segty laast aessn siuon oenha eaoas ncoot ctwkaĭmswo dpuoh eewis ebdni laarm syucs idvos lhina igahh soyie So, by selecting letters based on that frequency (a bit like rolling a 1,000 sided die (dice), where each die has 82 a's, 15 b's. "z" is lkely to occur only 1 time in every 1,000, or as a ratio 1/1000 =."e" is lkely to occur 127 times in every 1,000, or as a ratio 127/1000 =.Here is how many times you would expect to see a letter in every 1,000 letters:Ĭan you see that "e" is common, but "z" is rare? In fact the frequency of letters in the English Language is well known. So, our next improvement is to use less of the letters like j, x, z and q and more of the letters like e, t and s. More words can be pronounced.īut there are still lots of strange words like " zspsu" and " xuybk" Letter Frequency Like this: ectot gjaqv kuifg vzicu zspsu pdidb wqdis uerrs ucgej okimwįnevz ewxko ljgew aglgo jpfoq dcytu uwkcj dzioy wekdx xuybk We can improve our success by insisting that a word have at least one vowel, since nearly every word in English has one (except fly, by and a few others). And we can see that putting random letters together is very unlikely to produce a real word. So the probability of making a real word just randomly would be:Ĥ0,000 / 11,881,376 = 0.003, or about 0.3% chance Let us guess that there are 40,000 words in English that have 5 letters. but how many different words can be made with just 5 letters?Ģ6 × 26 × 26 × 26 × 26 = 11,881,376 possible 5 letter words! Why? Well, English has around 200,000 words (228,000 in the Oxford English Dictionary including many words no longer used). you would have to try lots of random combinations before getting lucky. You see, the probability is very unlikely. It turns out that the words are not only nonsense, but quite hard to pronounce! Muyfd ighgd xhlng oyecn vjnsl ssjrx gxald tukxj rvfoq yxzxq Well, here are 20 words made that way: tldkl oewkx dmwol vuptg hvwjk naqid avypr zwtip zgnzs bvdhd just pick letters randomly and put them together, and voila! a random word. ![]() You would think it was easy to create random words. ![]()
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