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Character Frequency
See exactly which characters your text uses, how often, and what share each one takes.
Count character frequency
Character counts will appear here.
Paste some text to begin.
How to use the Character Frequency
- Paste the text whose characters you want to count.
- Choose whether to ignore case, ignore spaces or include punctuation.
- Click Count characters and read the shares, or copy the table.
Features
- Count and share for every character used
- Case-insensitive and ignore-spaces options
- Optional filtering of punctuation and digits
- Sort by frequency or alphabetically
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the free online character frequency.
Paste your text and click Count characters. Each character is listed with a count and a share
of the total, sorted however you like.
It is the count of that character divided by all counted characters, so the shares add up to
one hundred percent.
It treats uppercase and lowercase letters as the same character, which is useful for spotting
letters that dominate a text.
Spaces, tabs and newlines are left out of the count, so the shares describe only the visible
characters.
Yes, they appear as whitespace rows named newline, tab and carriage return so you can see
line break habits in the text.
In normal prose roughly one character in six is a space, so it usually tops the table unless
you ignore spaces.
Yes. It is a plain count of your own text. It does not attempt to break any cipher or decode
anything.
Yes. Accented Latin letters and Cyrillic characters are treated as letters, while emoji count
as punctuation.
No. The counting is done in your browser and your text is never uploaded or stored.
Last updated: October 10, 2026