See which characters appear most in your text. Paste text below for a frequency table with visual bars, sorted by count.
Type some text above and press Analyse.
How to Use
- Type or paste your text into the box.
- Tick “Case sensitive” to count A and a separately, or “Include spaces” to count whitespace.
- Press Analyse.
- Read the frequency table, sorted with the most common character first.
Key Features
- Visual bars — each character gets a proportional bar for quick comparison.
- Percentages — see each character’s share of the total.
- Case options — count case-sensitively or fold to lower case.
- Whitespace control — include or skip spaces, tabs and new lines.
- 100% private — runs entirely in your browser; nothing is sent or stored.
FAQs
What is character frequency analysis?
Counting how often each character appears. It is used in cryptography, compression and linguistics.
Why would I need this?
Writers check letter balance, puzzlers analyse ciphers, and developers inspect data distributions.
Does it count emoji?
Yes — emoji and characters from any script are counted like any other character.
What is the difference from word frequency?
This tool counts individual characters; our Word Frequency Counter counts whole words. Use both for a full picture.
Is my data sent anywhere?
No. Everything runs entirely in your browser and never transmits or saves your entries.
Related Tools
Try these related tools: Word Frequency Counter, Character Counter and Word Counter.