Use awk to calculate letter frequency

Posted by bob on Apr 2, 2021 7:46 AM EDT
Opensource.com; By Jim Hall
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I recently started writing a game where you build words using letter tiles. To create the game, I needed to know the frequency of letters across regular words in the English language, so I could present a useful set of letter tiles. Letter frequency is discussed in various places, including on Wikipedia, but I wanted to calculate the letter frequency myself.

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