So why not give B a boost with these brilliantly bizarre words? 1. But when B isn’t the first letter of a word, it’s actually quite rare: Take an average page of written English text, and you can expect it to account for less than 1.5 percent of it, making B the seventh least-used English letter overall. And on the one hand, you’d be right-nearly 5 percent of all the words in a dictionary are listed under the second letter of the alphabet.
If you had to take a guess at the 10 least-used letters of the English alphabet, chances are you wouldn’t rank B down among the Zs, Qs, Xs, and Js.