Finnish language: the foreign letter

B, C, D, F, G, are very rare in Finnish, usually they exist in some loanwords

Q, W, X, Z doesn't exists but are in the alphabet for compatibility reasons

Surprisingly also Ö is rare while Ä is not.

However, these are very common in quintessential Finnish words:

A, I, O, U, E, Y

Very common consonants are L, N, S

Common double-consonants are KK, SS, TT

These are loanwords which are using the foreign letters instead of trying to change these words into more Finnish like:

-abi
-abortti
-absoluuttinen
-bakteeri
-banaali
-behaviorismi
-cocktail
-city
-college
-data
-dealer
-desantti
-ego
-fenomenaalinen
-fenotyyppi
-festari
-glögi (interesting for its using foreign letters and also ö, it is Swedish loanword)
-gospel
-graniitti
-magneetti

You wont find many words using these foreign letters

p.s. I just browsed through a dictionary and about 4000 words start with A

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autism

Aren't ö and å in loan words mostly?

Also vowel harmony is a thing, since we're on the subject.

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Å is super-rare, almost exclusively used in names and the likes. Ö is pretty common, Ä has to be the most common out of the 3.

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Å is never used outside of some names. Ä is very common, I'd doubt all the words with it are loans.

Vowel harmony seems really cool, suffixes follow it too right?

We don't natively use the letter F. All the words with it are foreign.

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