# Letter Frequencies for Scrabble

DevFeed: [Letter Frequencies for Scrabble](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/letter-frequencies-for-scrabble-40586.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://norvig.com/scrabble-letter-scores.html>)

Published: 2013-01-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Peter Norvig](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/peter-norvig.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>)

Tags: [analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analysis.md>), [change](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/change.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [game](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/game.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [points](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/points.md>), [scrabble](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scrabble.md>), [table](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/table.md>), [values](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/values.md>)

## AI overview

An analysis of English letter frequencies across historical periods and their relationship to Scrabble point values, using Google Books Ngram data.

## Source excerpt

An analysis of frequency counts for letters in English, with applications to the game of Scrabble. Also presents a distillation of the Google Books Ngram data, broken out by time periods.