The present invention discloses a method for accessing a portable terminal telephone book according to the use frequency, and the method is used for displaying a telephone book according to the frequency of telephone book record accessed by a user. The method comprises that firstly, the use frequency of each record in the telephone book is counted, and statistical results are stored; when the records of the telephone book are accessed by a user, the records of the telephone book with presetting number is displayed to the user in terms of the presetting access rule according to the use frequency of all the records counted. And the other records in the telephone book can also be displayed to the user further in terms of the other sequencing mode. The method of the present invention solves the inconsistency between the operation complexity in accessing the existing telephone book and the locating efficiency, can rapidly locate the position of the records in the telephone book with less user button pushing operation frequency, thus the user can rapidly, accurately and expediently accesses the records in the portable terminal telephone book.