Letter Frequency Chart
Show how often each letter appears in your text, ranked by frequency. Punctuation and digits excluded.
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About Letter Frequency Chart
This tool tallies letter occurrences only — punctuation, digits, whitespace, and symbols are excluded. The classic English letter ranking is ETAOIN SHRDLU (E most common, then T, A, O, I, N…). Compare your sample to that ranking to spot cipher patterns or language profiles.
When to use it
- Cryptanalysis exercises (frequency-counting a substitution cipher)
- Studying letter distributions in a foreign-language sample
- Producing input for word games (Scrabble, Bananagrams) prep
- Comparing a sample's letter profile to the English baseline
How it works
Only characters matching the Unicode property \p{L} (letters in any script) are counted. Letters are lowercased before tallying. Results are sorted by count descending, ties broken alphabetically.
Examples
Hello, World!
l (3), o (2), h (1), e (1), w (1), r (1), d (1)
Frequently asked questions
- Which characters count as letters?
- Anything in the Unicode 'Letter' category — ASCII letters (a-z), accented Latin (á, ü, ç), Greek (α, β, γ), Cyrillic (а, б, в), and so on. Digits and punctuation are excluded.
- Is the count case-sensitive?
- No. 'A' and 'a' merge into the same count.
- What's the English letter ranking?
- ETAOIN SHRDLU is the traditional ordering — E, T, A, O, I, N, S, H, R, D, L, U. Letter rankings vary somewhat by corpus (technical writing has more X and K than fiction).