Character Frequency Counter
Character Frequency Counter reports how often each grapheme appears, including spaces and punctuation.
Example: character frequency counter
banana
"a" 3
How to use this tool
- Paste the text you want to inspect.
- Review the character-and-count rows.
- Check whether visible spaces or marks explain unexpected totals.
Counting visible units
The new tool segments text into graphemes when the browser supports Intl.Segmenter. A combined character such as a letter plus an accent can therefore count as one displayed unit, while its underlying code points may be more than one. Spaces, newlines, and punctuation are still characters in this report.
Practical checks
The table can help inspect repeated symbols, unusual separators, or whether a draft has a heavy concentration of particular letters. It is also useful when preparing constrained text such as labels or puzzles. For overall length, Character Counter is easier to read; for text terms, Word Frequency Counter is the relevant view.
Interpretation limits
A frequency table does not diagnose encoding errors or tell you which character is visually confusing. In browsers without grapheme segmentation, the tool falls back to code-point iteration, which can split some combined symbols. Inspect the source text when exact Unicode boundaries matter.
Questions people ask
Are spaces included?
Yes; whitespace is part of the character tally.
Are uppercase and lowercase merged?
No; distinct graphemes get distinct entries.
Can one emoji be multiple code points?
Yes; a displayed emoji sequence can contain several code points.