Character Frequency Counter

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

  1. Type or paste your text into the box.
  2. Tick “Case sensitive” to count A and a separately, or “Include spaces” to count whitespace.
  3. Press Analyse.
  4. 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.

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