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How many possible combinations of letters are there in the alphabet?

How many possible combinations of letters are there in the alphabet?

The number of possible combinations that are possible with 26 letters, with no repetition, is 67,108,863.

How many possible combinations of English words are there?

Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, Volume 1. Oxford University Press, 1989. “In addition to the headwords of main entries, the Dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives in bold type, and 169,000 phrases and combinations in bold italic type, making a total of 616,500 word-forms.”

Is the set of letters in the English alphabet finite or infinite?

There are 26 letters in the set of English alphabet. Therefore, it is a finite set.

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How many different words are possible?

Finally, Wikipedia gives 18 simple codas + 77 complex codas + no coda = 96 codas. So given these very rough numbers, this makes for 80*12*96 = 92,160 possible monosyllables.

If there aren’t any restrictions, there would 26 unique possibilities for each position. That makes 26 * 26 * 26 possible combinations. Now, if all the letters have to be different, there would be 26 * 25 * 24 possibilities, because the first choice takes away one option from the other 2.

How many times can you use the same letter in math?

It depends on whether you allow the same letter to be used multiple times or do not allow repetition. If you do: 26^6 = 26 * 26 * 26 * 26 * 26 * 26 = 308,915,776.

How many 4 letter combinations are there 5x4x3?

If on the other hand you consider ALE and LEA to be different then you are talking permutations not combinations, and the math is actually much easier because it is just 5x4x3=60. How many 4-letter combinations are there? there are 26 letters in our alphabet.

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How many ways can you make a 4 letter sequence?

First choose the 4 letters we want to use. This can be done in 26 choose 4, or 14,950, ways. Now order the chosen letters. There are 4! = 24 ways to do this. There are thus (14,950) (24) = 358,800 such sequences.