According to multiple sources, the most common letter in the English alphabet is the letter "E". It appears in approximately 11% of all words in the common English vocabulary, which is about 6,000 more words than the runner-up letter, "A". The frequency of the letters of the alphabet in English text is dominated by a relatively small number of common words, but even in vocabulary, "E" is the most commonly used letter. Other common letters in the English alphabet include "A," "R," "I," "O," "T," "N," and "S".