Manual for the Solution of Military Ciphers

by Parker Hitt

Alphabetic Frequency Tables

(Truesdell)

Frequency of occurrence in 1,000 letters of text:

Letter	French	German	Italian	Portuguese
A	80	52	117	140
B	6	18	6	6
C	33	31	45	34
D	40	51	31	40
E	197	173	126	142
F	9	21	10	12
G	7	42	17	10
H	6	41	6	10
I	65	81	114	59
J	3	1	[1]	5
K	[1]	10	[1]
L	49	28	72	32
M	31	20	30	46
N	79	120	66	48
O	57	28	93	110
P	32	8	30	28
Q	12	[1]	3	16
R	74	69	64	64
S	66	57	49	88
T	65	60	60	43
U	62	51	29	46
V	21	9	20	15
W	[1]	15
X	3	[1]	[1]	1
Y	2	[1]	[1]	1
Z	1	14	12	4

Order of Frequency

French

E

A

N

R

S

I

U

O

L

D

C

P

M

V

Q

F

G

B

J

Y

Z

T

H

X

German

E

N

I

R

T

S

A

D

G

H

C

L

F

M

B

W

Z

K

V

P

J

Q

X

Y

U

O