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There are 26 letters in the alphabet: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.

There are 21 consonant letters in the alphabet: B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y and Z.

There are 5 vowels in the alphabet: A, E, I, O, U.

Note: Sometimes Y can be used as a vowel.

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Total number of letters in the alphabet

English alphabet is begun around the 7th century from Latin script. The alphabet word is a compound of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet are alpha and beta.

  • 23 letters (A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z) are the first 23 letters of the 29 original Old English Alphabet.
  • 3 letters have been added from Old English: J, U, and W. J and U were added in the 16th century, while W assumed the status of an independent letter.
  • 6 letters have been dropped from the Old English alphabet:: & ⁊ Ƿ Þ Ð Æ
  • Until 1835, the English Alphabet consisted of 27 letters: right after “Z” the 27th letter of the alphabet was ampersand (&).
  • The English Alphabet (or Modern English Alphabet) today consists of 26 letters: 23 of 29 from Old English and 3 added later.

Letters of Alphabet Numbered

Letter NumberLetter
1A
2B
3C
4D
5E
6F
7G
8H
9I
10J
11K
12L
13M
14N
15O
16P
17Q
18R
19S
20T
21U
22V
23W
24X
25Y
26Z

Random Alphabet Facts

  • M is the 13th letter of the alphabet.
  • English is one of the widely spoken languages worldwide, with over 1.5 billion speakers.These letters can be both in uppercase andlowercase.
  • The most commonly used letters of the English language are e, t, a, i, o, n, s, r, and h.
  • The most. common word endings are-ed, -ing, -ion, -ist, -ous, -ent, -able, -ment, -tion, -ight, and -ance.

Number of Letters in Different Languages

  • Germans use the same 26 letters that English uses despite some pronunciation and formatting differences.
  • The Spanish language has 27 letters in total.
  • The French alphabet has 26 letters since it’s based on the Latin alphabet.
  • The Italian language uses a variant of the Latin alphabet comprising 21 letters.
  • The Hebrew language is known as square script, blocks script, or Jewish scrip and has 22 letters.
  • The Modern Greek alphabet has 24 letters, ordering from alpha to omega.
  • There are more than 100,000 Chinese characters, and it is almost impossible to count them. However, the number of useful characters is between 3,000 to 6,000.
  • The modern Japanese writing system uses a mixture of three alphabets but is similarly impossible to count them all.
  • The modern Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters: 10 vowels, 21 consonants, and 2 signs (ь, ъ).
  • The Hawaiian alphabet has five vowels, seven consonants, and one glottal stop.
  • The Swedish language consists of 29 letters,AthroughÖ.
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