This publication also contains an extensive list of letter beacon frequencies, both current and historical.
They would possess letter frequency, short words, various duplications.
They appeared to be ordinary cryptograms; but the letter frequencies did not check.
The following example game illustrates a player trying to guess the word hangman using a strategy based solely on letter frequency.
The scramble display has exactly the same letter frequencies as the underlying plaintext.
Accurate average letter frequencies can only be gleaned by analyzing a large amount of representative text.
The letter frequencies for English are listed below.
The list below shows the letter frequencies in order of descending frequency.
Such ordinary items as letter frequency had not concerned The Shadow long.
It is also possible that the plaintext does not exhibit the expected distribution of letter frequencies.
