That's because tykes who are just starting to talk initially can't annunciate consonant sounds at the end of syllables.
The test results showed that the children who had taken piano lessons performed significantly better at discriminating between words that differ by a single consonant, when compared against the children who took extra reading lessons.
We are not wasting a single letter — there is not one excess consonant or vowel.
The most common consonant in English is "r", followed by "t".
