- The most common letter in English is “e”.
- The most common vowel in English is “e”, followed by “a”.
- The most common consonant in English is “r”, followed by “t”.
- Every syllable in English must have a vowel (sound). Not all syllables have consonants.
- Only two English words in current use end in “-gry”. They are “angry” and “hungry”.
- The word “triskaidekaphobia” means “extreme fear of the number 13”. This superstition is related to “paraskevidekatriaphobia”, which means “fear of Friday the 13th”.
- More English words begin with the letter “s” than with any other letter.
- A sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet is called a “pangram”.
- The following sentence contains all 26 letters of the alphabet: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
- The only word in English that ends with the letters “-mt” is “dreamt” (which is a variant spelling of “dreamed”) – as well of course as “undreamt” 🙂
- The word “alphabet” comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha, bÄ“ta.
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