Decided to dig into this at lunch.
Using the scrabble dictionary, each of these letters represent the most frequent letters at each position for all five-letter words.
If we look at the most common letters at each position across all words,
1st Position:
3rd Position:
4th Position:
5th Position:
So, do you guess AROSE which would include S @ 52.0% of all characters, E @ 51.3%, A @ 44.8%, O @ 33.4%, and R @ 32.6%?
Or do you guess TERNS/STERN/RENTS/NERTS which has the most frequent consonants and the most frequent vowel? --> Best combo here is RENTS because it's the largest sum of frequencies for each letter at each position.
Or do you guess CARES which has the most common letter for each position if they are in the word?
Not sure. Most likely this isn't the right way to analyze. The best is probably finding out which is the combo of including and excluding. Maybe one letter eliminates another (think Q & U).
But I'm sticking with #2 :-)
Using the scrabble dictionary, each of these letters represent the most frequent letters at each position for all five-letter words.
- The most common letter is S @52% of all characters. The 5th position is the most common for S @ 59.9% of words with >1 S (which answers my question earlier about words w/ S)
- The 2nd is E @ 51.3%. The 4th position is the most common @ 38.1%
- A is 3rd @ 44.8%. 2nd position is most common @ 46.4%
- O is 4th @ 33.4%, however, it's most common position is 2 at 46.4%. The next most is is 3rd @ 23.4% which is good for 9th overall in letters. So let's save this.
- R is 5th @ 32.6%, most common is 3rd position @ 28.1%
- I is 6th @ 29.5%. Most common is 2nd, again. Of words with I, 2nd position is 37.9% and 3rd is 28.9%, both lower than the letters above in those position. 4th position is at 22.8%, so hold that for now.
- L is 7th @ 27.4%, 3rd is most common at 25%, then 4th @ 22.3%, and 2nd @ 21.2%. All lower.
- T is 8th @ 26.0%, most common is 4th @ 27.6%. 1st is next at 24.5%, so possibly a good choice here, and 5th is next @ 21.2%.
- N is 9th @ 22.7%, most common is 3rd @ 32.3%. Next is 4th at 26.3%, then 5th at 18.8%
- D is 10th @ 19.4%, 5th @ 34.5%, 1st @ 27.0%, 4th @ 18.5%
- U is 11th @ 19.0%, 2nd @ 48.2%, 3rd @ 26.9%, 4th @ 15.7%
- C is 12th @ 16.6%, 1st @ 46.0%, 4th @ 19.7%, 3rd @ 19.3%
If we look at the most common letters at each position across all words,
1st Position:
- S @ 12.1% of ALL words
- C @ 7.6%
- B @ 6.9%
- A @ 17.2%
- O @ 15.5%
- E @ 12.4%
3rd Position:
- A @ 9.7%
- R @ 9.2%
- I @ 8.5%
4th Position:
- E @ 19.6% (again, of all words)
- A @ 7.8%
- T @ 7.2%
5th Position:
- S @ 31.2%!!
- E @ 10.6%
- Y @ 10.5%
So, do you guess AROSE which would include S @ 52.0% of all characters, E @ 51.3%, A @ 44.8%, O @ 33.4%, and R @ 32.6%?
Or do you guess TERNS/STERN/RENTS/NERTS which has the most frequent consonants and the most frequent vowel? --> Best combo here is RENTS because it's the largest sum of frequencies for each letter at each position.
Or do you guess CARES which has the most common letter for each position if they are in the word?
Not sure. Most likely this isn't the right way to analyze. The best is probably finding out which is the combo of including and excluding. Maybe one letter eliminates another (think Q & U).
But I'm sticking with #2 :-)
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