Treasures of Arabic Language

Nature and characteristic of letters - 4

Frequency of Letters in Words

Some letters are used more frequently than others in word construction.
More Frequent Alef Lam Meem Ha'a Waw Ya'a Noon ���� ������
Less Frequent Raa ��� ������
Rare ���� �������

Any Arabic word of three letters or more must contain at least one of these six letters: , otherwise the word is not considered Arabic word.

No two letters of the following set can exist together in any Arabic word.

Some letters (like Ein ) are not preceded by other letters (like Ha'a ) in the word

Some letters (like Jeem ) are not followed by other letters (like Daad) in the word.

Source: Lesan Al-Arab (The Arab Tongue) by Ebn Manzour - Dar El-Maaref; Cairo
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