Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan/Frequency of syllables
The syllables in the Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan were counted in the original TL and are shown here in MTL.
Top 100 most frequent MLT-Harnji pairs
ar (仔), thaau (頭), laang (人), bøo (無), zuie (水), chiuo (手), toa (大), sym (心), khaf (跤), kofng (公), ciah (食), bin (面), zhuix (喙), hofng (風), zhaix (菜), chiaf (車), lo (路), zhud (出), jit (日), e (會), cit (一), u (有), jiin (人), tøe (地), kym (金), of (烏), hør (好), sii (時), hii (魚), kafng (工), hoef (花), sie (死), id (一), høea (火), zeeng (情), au (後), m (毋), hoe (會), pud (不), iuu (油), goa (外), bak (目), tiøh (著), oe (話), khix (氣), hae (海), hoad (法), peh (白), zøx (做), syn (身), ix (意), phaq (拍), nii (年), bøea (尾), cvii (錢), khie (起), siøf (相), seg (色), sefng (生), tien (電), su (事), lie (理), køef (雞), khafng (空), iøh (藥), tiofng (中), siin (神), buun (文), thea (體), hwn (分), hoad (發), zuo (主), khvoax (看), baq (肉), løh (落), tau (豆), bie (米), guu (牛), aang (紅), tong (動), svoaf (山), purn (本), kviar (囝), kud (骨), ciuo (酒), svef (生), laai (來), hak (學), chyn (親), uix (對), siw (收), lek (力), kog (國), khuy (開), ty (豬), tuix (對), phvae (歹), mngg (門), zhao (草), teng (定)
Top 100 most frequent syllables
The ten most frequent are: ar (867), thaau (291), kofng (170), chiuo (163), zuie (161), hofng (156), laang (152), sym (147), khaf (140), seg (133).
The next 90 most frequent syllables are: hoad, ky, khix, syn, toa, kef, bøo, bin, kaf, te, chiaf, lie, lo, iuu, cie, sw, jiin, su, sefng, zhuix, oe, hwn, zhaix, kafng, zuo, tai, zhud, zeeng, khie, sii, heeng, hoea, jit, lek, køf, kex, kym, sex, hoe, siofng, ho, zexng, of, leeng, kii, hii, hoef, siøf, kor, lieen, koafn, zefng, bak, si, to, goa, bie, goaan, siin, buun, siw, nii, zex, peh, hoong, hae, cid, au, tong, tiofng, kefng, kaw, pud, tien, mngg, teng, kaux, kog, kae, tee, boea, ix, sie, buo, sexng, kerng, ciah, biin, tngg, khuy
Method
A frequency analysis was performed on the readings of headwords of the Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan (as found in MoeDict). All sections were used except Japanese loanwords and idioms. Alternate readings were not included. Each reading was broken down into syllables, yielding a total of 37,678 syllables, which included 2,128 distinct syllables.