1702 CCVCC 381 VCCCV 106 VCVVV 1247 CVVCC VVCCV 77 VVCCC 10524 CVCVC 904 CCVVC 272 CCCCV 48 VVVVC 8301 CVCCV 657 CCCVC 248 CVVVV 37 VVVVV 3180 CVCVV 578 CVVVC 149 VVVCV 29 VVVCC 2962 CVVCV 577 VCCVV 136 VVCVV ｿCVCV 13 2911 VCVCV 555 VCVVC 133 CCVVV 2743 CCVCV 451 VCVCC 132 CCCVV 2540 CVCCC 437 VVCVC 117 VCCCC 2080 VCCVC Note that for five letter words, in both Spanish and English, CVCVC is the top-occuring pattern, while CVCCV is second. Spanish 6 $awk '{print $1}' $s|sed -n '/^.\{6\}$/s/[aeoiuáíéóúòàôâïèüìêãöąîäû]/V/gp'|sed 's/[rsntlcdmpbghvfkyzjwqxñżç]/C/g'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|head -32
10524 CVCVC 8301 CVCCV 3180 CVCVV 2962 CVVCV 2911 VCVCV 2743 CCVCV 2540 CVCCC 2080 VCCVC 1702 CCVCC 1247 CVVCC 904 CCVVC 657 CCCVC 578 CVVVC 577 VCCVV 555 VCVVC 451 VCVCC 437 VVCVC 381 VCCCV VVCCV 272 CCCCV 248 CVVVV 149 VVVCV 136 VVCVV 133 CCVVV 132 CCCVV 117 VCCCC 106 VCVVV 77 VVCCC 48 VVVVC 37 VVVVV 29 VVVCC 13 ｿCVCV Note that for five letter words, in both Spanish and English, CVCVC is the top-occuring pattern, while CVCCV is second. Spanish 6 $awk '{print $1}' $s|sed -n '/^.\{6\}$/s/[aeoiuáíéóúòàôâïèüìêãöąîäû]/V/gp'|sed 's/[rsntlcdmpbghvfkyzjwqxñżç]/C/g'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|head -32