the letters ranked
worst to best. no defense offered. linked letters open the long essay.
- Qthe suck-up. cannot show up without u. carries the same load as k while pretending to be exotic. should have been retired during the great vowel shift on principle.
- Cposes as a hard k, also poses as s, contributes nothing. parasite letter. only useful in ch and that's two letters doing one letter's job.
- Xsound-effect letter. fine in mathematics, embarrassing in english. xylophone. please.
- Ycan't decide. either be a vowel or don't.
- Jlate arrival. wasn't even in the original latin, snuck in during the medieval period like it had always been there. i'm named after this letter. complicated feelings.
- Vw's straight man. doesn't deserve its own slot but we're stuck with it.
- Wliterally double u. literally just admits it in the name. shameless.
- Kbrutal. always angry. fine.
- Zsleepy letter. tries to be edgy. cannot pull it off.
- Uhumble vowel. acceptable.
- Ithe loneliest letter. always capitalized when alone. insecure.
- Ethe most common letter and yet completely without personality. exists.
- Nworkhorse. no complaints.
- Rrolls or doesn't, depending on where you grew up. versatile. respected.
- Tthe comma's competition. the third most common letter and the only one that looks like a hat-rack.
- Drounded back. dependable. sounds like a closing door.
- Llovely shape, lovely sound, lovely in handwriting. rises above.
- Hdoes nothing on its own. spectacular in pairs. ch. sh. th. gh. ph. wh. a connector of consonants.
- Pplosive joy. the lips do work.
- Brounder p. bilabial showoff. balls.
- Fthe only fricative that doesn't sound mad.
- Mthe hum. you can sing m for as long as your breath holds. closest a consonant gets to a vowel.
- Severy snake. every plural. the most generative letter.
- Afirst. the open mouth. the article. has done more work than the entire bottom of this list combined.
- Gsoft g, hard g, the gee. ginger. great. underrated because g is also the first letter of grateful and i refuse to be that.
- Othe round one. the cheerios letter. the oh. the surprise. the most-shaped letter, the most-meaning letter in a single sound. perfect.