Count how many times each letter appears in your text. Every letter gets its count and share, sorted by most used or A to Z, next to how often it appears in ordinary English.
Paste a word, a sentence or a whole document, and the counter lists every letter with how many times it appears and its share of all the letters. Upper and lower case count as the same letter, and the numbers update as you type.
Choose Most used to see the common letters first, or A–Z to see the whole alphabet, including the letters your text never uses. Vowels and Consonants narrow the list to one group. Show the result as a chart or as tiles, copy it into a spreadsheet with Copy results, or keep it as a PDF with the text and the numbers.
Next to each letter is EN: how often that letter appears in ordinary English text. E is the most common letter in English at about 12.7%, followed by t, a and o, while j, q, x and z each stay under 0.2%. In the chart, the bar is your text and the thin line is English, so you can see at a glance which letters you use more or less than usual.
The comparison appears once the text has 100 letters, because a shorter text is too small to say much. With Vowels or Consonants chosen, both your text and English are counted within that group. Letters from other alphabets, such as æ, ø or é, are counted but have no English figure.
Letter frequency is how a substitution cipher is broken. Paste the coded text, sort by Most used, and compare the top letters with English: the most common letter in the code probably stands for e, the next ones for t, a and o. In a Caesar cipher every letter is shifted by the same amount, so finding e is often enough to read the whole message.
The same counts help with word games and writing. A–Z shows whether a sentence is a pangram that uses all 26 letters, or a lipogram that avoids one, and the vowel and consonant totals show how a name or a headline is built.
Letters of any alphabet: æ, ø, å, é and ü count just like a to z, and so do Greek, Cyrillic and other scripts. Digits, spaces and punctuation are left out of the letter total, which is why it is lower than the character count.
a, e, i, o and u, with or without an accent, plus æ, ø, å and œ. Y is counted as a consonant, because whether it behaves as a vowel depends entirely on the word it is in. Letters from other alphabets are counted as letters but as neither vowels nor consonants, and are shown on a line of their own.
No. A and a are counted as the same letter, so the frequency reflects the words rather than the styling.
Word games and crosswords, cryptograms and simple ciphers, and checking how a name, headline or slogan is built. In ordinary English text, e, t and a are usually the three most common letters.
It is how often that letter appears in ordinary English text, so you can see at a glance which letters your text uses more or less than usual. In the chart it is the thin line: a bar that ends past the line means your text uses that letter more than usual. It appears once the text has 100 letters, because a shorter text is too small to compare. With Vowels or Consonants selected, it is the share within that group. In a substitution cipher, the most common letter in the coded text is most likely e, then t and a. Choose A–Z to see every letter, including the ones the text never uses.
Total letters counts letters and nothing else. The character count under the result counts everything you pasted, spaces and punctuation included.
The Word & Character Counter answers how long the text is, in characters, words, sentences and paragraphs. This one answers what the text is made of, letter by letter.