Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan/Frequency of syllables

The syllables in the Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan were counted in the original TRS and are shown here in MTL. 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 headwords of the Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan (as found in MoeDict). All sections were used except Japanese loanwords and idioms, but only main headwords were included (alternate readings were excluded). Each TRS was broken down into syllables, yielding a total of 37,678 syllables, which included 2,128 distinct syllables. The syllables are sorted by frequency (count), then alphabetically, written in the original TRS, along with conversions to POJ and MTL.

See also

• List of all initial consonants
• Table of all finals in MTL
• Frequently-used Taiwanese monosyllables