Ranking the non-premium letters, I found the answer!

[mvl]

ranking the non-premium letters, thanks to L-L-L.COM I found the answer!

Hi,

According to 3character.com PREMIUM letters are: a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,l,m,n,o,p,r,s,t
lesser premium are: j,k,u,v,w
and lower quality letter are: q,x,y,z


A recurring question is: Can the non-premium letters be ranked depending on their quality? Which non-premium letter is best and which is absolutely the worst?

I used the recent L-L-L.COM popularity to investigate this and here is the result:

From good to bad:
K, W, U, V, J, Y, X, Z, Q

a few observations:
- K is the best letter, W is almost as good. In fact they are not bad at all
- U and V are third and fourth with acceptable but definitely less quality than K and W
- J and Y are medium quality among the non-premiums
- X and Z are really bad compared to the other non-premiums
- Q is clearly the worst among the non-premiums

How did I investigate this?

I observed high interest in L-L-L.COM name recently so this is what I did:
1. I ran an availability test of L-L-L.com for all PREMIUM letters, there were none available
2. I took the set of PREMIUM letter, and added all non-premiums to it, one at a time
3. I ran availability tests of L-L-L.COM domains for all PREMIUM letters and for every test one non-premium letter. I repeated this for every non-premium
4. Looking at the results I counted the number of free domains per non-premium letter. My ranking is based on these numbers.

Here are the numbers of available L-L-L.COM domains as per an hour or so ago:

premium + j: 330
premium + k: 33
premium + q: 650
premium + u: 127
premium + v: 202
premium + w: 36
premium + x: 504
premium + y: 399
premium + z: 566

One last note: of course I did not really find THE answer, but this should be a good indication. For a better answer we should investigate some others domains as well, like LLLL.COM of maybe some others.

 

[accent]

Interesting.

I have followed LLLL.coms on DYYO.com for a while. The results are similar to what you have found.

The LLLL.coms with the one non-premium "K" were the first to be unavailable, late last year, followed almost immediately with "W". The "U"s ran out a few months later.

A couple months ago there were less "J's than "V"s and "Y"s. So I would put "J" ahead of "V", but the difference between those three is small. All three of those letters are essentially gone now as the only non-premiums in a LLLL.com.

There are now:
"X" = 320
"Z" = 469
"Q" = 1864

So I would say that LLLL.coms confirm your research almost exactly.

 

[Chris.]

Nice rep added if was allowed

 

[cache]

interesting, so any theory behind the findings?

I always go with scrabble
http://lllh.com/Scrabble.htm

however, it matches somewhat, but it does not match exactly.

 

[accent]

Scrabble is about the number of words a letter is used in.

LLLL.com sales are about potential acronymns (the first letters of business names) and pronouncability. Similar, but not the same thing.

Some people also look at overall frequency of letter use - also not the same thing - You get tons of a few letters because of the frequency of those letters in a few highly used words.

No doubt Scrabble and other systems influence the overall totals of registrations, but like the price of a stock, all information is included in the totals.