Relative Frequencies of Letters in General English Plain text
From Cryptographical Mathematics, by Robert Edward Lewand


Letter Frequency Letter Frequency
a 0.08167 n 0.06749
b 0.01492 o 0.07507
c 0.02782 p 0.01929
d 0.04253 q 0.00095
e 0.12702 r 0.05987
f 0.02228 s 0.06327
g 0.02015 t 0.09056
h 0.06094 u 0.02758
i 0.06966 v 0.00978
j 0.00153 w 0.02360
k 0.00772 x 0.00150
l 0.04025 y 0.01974
m 0.02406 z 0.00074

Tom's Letter Frequencies (in order)

By analyzing roughly 15000 characters, or roughly 2700 words from three separate sources, Tom came up with the statistics below. The three sources were:
General Letter Frequencies
e 0.124167
t 0.0969225
a 0.0820011
i 0.0768052
n 0.0764055
o 0.0714095
s 0.0706768
r 0.0668132
l 0.0448308
d 0.0363709
h 0.0350386
c 0.0344391
u 0.028777
m 0.0281775
f 0.0235145
p 0.0203171
y 0.0189182
g 0.0181188
w 0.0135225
v 0.0124567
b 0.0106581
k 0.00393019
x 0.00219824
j 0.0019984
q 0.0009325
z 0.000599

The top ten letters with frequencies, which occur at the beginning of words:
 

Start of Word Letter Frequencies
Letter t a i s o c m f p w
Freq 0.1594 0.155 0.0823 0.0775 0.0712 0.0597 0.0426 0.0408 0.040 0.0382

The top ten letters with frequencies, which occur at the end of words:
 

End of Word Letter Frequencies
Letter e s d t n y r o l f
Freq 0.1917 0.1435 0.0923 0.0864 0.0786 0.0730 0.0693 0.0467 0.0456 0.0408

The most common digrams (in order):
th, he, in, en, nt, re, er, an, ti, es, on, at, se, nd, or, ar, al, te, co, de, to, ra, et, ed, it, sa, em, ro.

The most common trigrams (in order):
the, and, tha, ent, ing, ion, tio, for, nde, has, nce, edt, tis, oft, sth, men