page_title: Arabic letter frequency
section_title: What gets counted in input Arabic text?
hierarchical_section_title: Arabic letter frequency / What gets counted in input Arabic text?
caption_attribution_description: English: Table showing all 36 printable Arabic letters
context_page_description: The frequency of letters in text has often been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular.
  No language has an exact letter frequency distribution, as all writers write slightly differently. As a rule texts in different languages using the Arabic script will have different letter frequencies, most obviously in the case of letters which are only used in some languages.
  Methods encoding the most frequent letters with the shortest symbols were pioneered by telegraph codes, and are used in modern data-compression techniques such as Huffman coding.
context_section_description: The Arabic alphabet consists of 28 primary letters, these are letters 1 to 28 in Table 1. The eight modified letters listed in positions 29 to 36 in the same table are used just the same. If these 8 modified forms are folded into the primary list based on shape or phonetic similarity, the outcome then is as shown in Table 2. For accurate frequency analysis, each of the 36 letters of Table 1 gets its frequency counted independently.
  The ordering of the alphabet shown in the tables is more logical than is used by the Unicode standard.
   
  Although the full set of Arabic characters includes about ten diacritics as shown in the Figure 1, frequency analysis of Arabic characters is only concerned with computing the frequency of alphabet letters shown in Table 2.
caption: Table 1: The Arabic alphabet. Letters 1 to 28 are the primary letters. Letters 29 to 36 are the modified letters.
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