Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan/Frequency of syllables
The syllables in the Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan were counted in terms of Chinese characters (Harnji) and TL.
Top 100 most frequent, as Harnji-reading pairs
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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.