The next most common letter is t, so he assigned that a single dah.
O is a very common letter, but it's still quite a feat to pull this off.
"The most common letter I get is from folks who hadn't been aware, saw the light," he said.
To us the British Empire was the entire alphabet and in it we were not more than the dot over the common letter i.
The vowels are not only not stuck in the middle of a common letter pattern, they've been set loose to run amok in the grid by themselves.
Even though the letter V is not a terribly common letter, I always find it interesting when a constructor places an additional constraint on his or her construction.
"The letter Q is notoriously infrequent when it comes to film titles," said Eric. "Sure, we all know it's not a very common letter in the English language, but its rarity in movie names is ridiculous".
It is a testament to his prodigious talent that one of the first reviewers of A Void (1969) should have failed to notice that the novel does not contain the most common letter (e) in the French language.
The hardest level shows common letter combinations and slightly more complex words -- like shell, kick and stop -- and is intended for children who are able to read some words.
Aye, it's a' about the A. It may be only the third most common letter in English - and by implication about the same in crosswords - but it is, without doubt, the best.
The software replaces the standard on-screen keyboard that a Tablet PC usually displays with a stylus-friendly keyboard that places common letter combinations near one another in a hexagonal grid.
