Character Frequency Analyzer
100% PrivateText & Writing ToolsCount how often every letter, digit and symbol appears in a piece of text.
Runs entirely in your browser. Your input is not uploaded to Ovatly or anywhere else.
Enter some text above and the frequency table appears here.
- 1Type or paste your text in the box.
- 2Choose whether A and a count as the same character, and whether spaces are counted.
- 3Read the frequency table: most common first, with counts and percentage shares.
- 4Use the summary line for the single most and least common characters.
Paste: "banana". The analyzer reports 6 characters counted and 3 different characters: a appears 3 times (50%), n appears 2 times (33.3%) and b appears once (16.7%). Most common: a. Least common: b.
- Newlines and tabs are never counted; spaces are counted only if you tick the option.
- With case sensitivity off, accented letters still count separately from their base letters (e and é are different characters).
- Percentages are rounded to one decimal place, so a column can add up to slightly more or less than 100%.
Spaces are usually the most frequent character in prose. This analyzer leaves them out unless you ask for them, so the letter results stay readable.
About this tool
The Character Frequency Analyzer counts how often every letter, digit and symbol appears in a piece of text and shows the result as a table with bars and percentages. It is handy for spotting overused letters in a draft, checking puzzle and cipher material, and sanity-checking generated text or data before you use it.
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