10 Incredibly Fun Facts About The Alphabet

By MRF March 10, 2020

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The most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E.

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If you try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or tongue every letter will sound the same.

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3

The 26 letters of the English alphabet make up more than 40 distinct sounds.

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4

The word "rhythm" is the longest word without a vowel.

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The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that has 3 syllables (all others have 1).

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1 out of every 8 letters written is an E.

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The English word alphabet comes (via Latin) from the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha and beta.

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The longest word in English which doesn't use the letter E is floccinaucinihilipilification.

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A sentence which contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet is called a pangram. A famous pangram is: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" or "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs"

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About 100 languages use the same alphabet like in English which makes it one of the most widely used alphabets in the world. While some languages have a few more and others a few less, they all share the 23 core letters originally found in the Roman alphabet.