Tool to analyze bigrams in a message. A bigram or digraph is an association of 2 characters, usually 2 letters, their frequency of appearance makes it possible to obtain information on a message.
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A bigram (or digram) is a pair of two characters, often 2 letters.
Example: AA or AB are bigrams
Bigrams are used in various encryptions in cryptography. There are 2 main modes of use of bigrams:
— A bigram may appear when a single character is encrypted by 2 characters.
Example: The Polybius cipher encodes each letter with a bigram representing coordinates in a grid. A can become BC
Encryptions that transforms grams into bigrams can be broken by retransforming then into a mono-alphabetic substitution.
— A bigram can come from the encryption of another bigram
Example: The Playfair cipher encodes the message by bigram by replacing it with another one. AB can become CD
The top 100 bigrams that appear in the english language are:
TH | 2.9% | HE | 2.48% | IN | 1.87% | ER | 1.73% |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AN | 1.65% | RE | 1.38% | ES | 1.35% | ST | 1.19% |
ON | 1.17% | ND | 1.14% | EN | 1.13% | AT | 1.08% |
NT | 1.08% | ED | 1.04% | EA | 1.01% | TO | 1% |
OR | 0.96% | TI | 0.96% | HA | 0.94% | AR | 0.89% |
NG | 0.89% | IS | 0.89% | IT | 0.88% | TE | 0.88% |
OU | 0.85% | ET | 0.84% | OF | 0.82% | AL | 0.82% |
AS | 0.8% | LE | 0.74% | SE | 0.73% | HI | 0.72% |
SA | 0.68% | RA | 0.64% | RO | 0.64% | NE | 0.64% |
VE | 0.63% | ME | 0.62% | RI | 0.62% | SO | 0.6% |
DE | 0.59% | LL | 0.58% | TA | 0.58% | LI | 0.57% |
SI | 0.57% | EL | 0.55% | EC | 0.52% | CO | 0.52% |
NO | 0.52% | OT | 0.51% | MA | 0.5% | DI | 0.5% |
IC | 0.49% | LA | 0.49% | HO | 0.49% | OM | 0.48% |
TT | 0.48% | NA | 0.48% | SH | 0.47% | CH | 0.46% |
BE | 0.46% | SS | 0.46% | RT | 0.46% | EE | 0.45% |
EM | 0.45% | NS | 0.44% | RS | 0.44% | CE | 0.43% |
UR | 0.42% | EI | 0.41% | CA | 0.41% | IO | 0.41% |
AC | 0.4% | TS | 0.4% | DA | 0.39% | LO | 0.39% |
US | 0.39% | WA | 0.38% | NI | 0.38% | DT | 0.38% |
PE | 0.38% | FO | 0.38% | EW | 0.37% | UT | 0.37% |
WI | 0.36% | IL | 0.36% | EO | 0.36% | LY | 0.36% |
WH | 0.36% | AD | 0.35% | UN | 0.34% | OW | 0.34% |
TR | 0.34% | NC | 0.33% | FT | 0.33% | DO | 0.32% |
GE | 0.32% | EP | 0.32% | MO | 0.32% | WE | 0.31% |
In english, digram and bigram means are the same thing: a couple of two characters. Bigram is the most common term.
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