This Hebrew letter frequency counter ranks every letter in a Hebrew passage by how often it appears, and — unlike a naive character count — it treats the five final (sofit) forms ך ם ן ף ץ as the distinct letters they are in Unicode, while still letting you fold them back onto their regular shapes when you prefer. It ignores vowel points so the totals reflect the consonantal skeleton of the text, the right basis for cryptanalysis, typography, and linguistic study.
How it works
The tool scans your text code point by code point and counts only the base Hebrew letters in the range
U+05D0–U+05EA (א through ת), which already includes the five final forms at their own code points.
Everything else — niqqud vowel points, cantillation marks, the maqaf, spaces, Latin text, and digits
— is skipped, so the result is a clean consonant frequency profile.
By default each final form is reported separately and flagged with a small (sofit) label, because in
correct Hebrew orthography ך, ם, ן, ף, and ץ only ever appear at the end of a word and carry real
positional meaning. When you enable fold final forms, the tool maps each sofit to its base before
tallying — ך→כ, ם→מ, ן→נ, ף→פ, ץ→צ — which is what you want when counting the underlying
consonant or phoneme. Letters are then sorted from most to least frequent and shown with a count and a
percentage share, computed as count / total × 100.
Example and tips
In ordinary Hebrew prose the most common letters are usually yod (י), vav (ו), he (ה), and mem (מ): yod and vav double as long-vowel matres lectionis, while he and mem appear in the article, prefixes, and plural endings. That predictable ordering is exactly what makes simple substitution ciphers in Hebrew solvable by frequency analysis.
Keep final forms separate when studying orthography or word boundaries, and fold them when you want pure consonant statistics or are comparing against phonetic data. Since all processing is local, private correspondence and sacred texts alike stay entirely on your device.