A Dozen Numbers

Today's Think Thursday challenge at the mentalfloss.com Brain Game asks you to give an answer off the top of your head. Give that a try!

Off the top of your head... When spelling out whole numbers from 1 to 12, which letter of the alphabet appears in those numbers the most times?

Here is the ANSWER.

QUESTION:

Off the top of your head, when spelling out whole numbers from 1 to 12, which letter of the alphabet appears in those numbers the most times?

ANSWER:

The letter E. It appears FOURTEEN times in the numbers from 1 to 12:  

one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve

No other letter of the alphabet appears more than six times in that list.

Thanks for playing! Tomorrow, it's Free-for-All Friday.