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The Letters האותיות

Counted from the consonantal text of the Westminster Leningrad Codex — the same letters every search on this site counts. Manuscript traditions differ slightly in plene and defective spellings, so counts quoted from other editions may differ by a small number of letters.

Letters in the Tanakh
1,197,042
Words
305,507
Most written
י 137,871
Least written
ט 6,310

The gematria chart

Each letter’s value in the standard count, מספר הכרחי — the reckoning every search on this site uses by default.

  1. א1Alef
  2. ב2Bet
  3. ג3Gimel
  4. ד4Dalet
  5. ה5He
  6. ו6Vav
  7. ז7Zayin
  8. ח8Chet
  9. ט9Tet
  10. י10Yod
  11. כ20Kaf
  12. ל30Lamed
  13. מ40Mem
  14. נ50Nun
  15. ס60Samech
  16. ע70Ayin
  17. פ80Pe
  18. צ90Tzadi
  19. ק100Kuf
  20. ר200Resh
  21. ש300Shin
  22. ת400Tav

The five final forms keep their letter’s value in the standard count; in Gadol they run on from Tav, 500 to 900.

  1. ך20500 in Gadol
  2. ם40600 in Gadol
  3. ן50700 in Gadol
  4. ף80800 in Gadol
  5. ץ90900 in Gadol

Each cell’s chart runs across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, and the bars are raw occurrence counts — so a long book has taller bars than a short one.

The Twelve is one of the twenty-four books, and every total on this site still counts it as one. On this axis its twelve prophets stand as their own columns, because Hosea is eight times the length of Obadiah and one column for both hides what each of them does.

Tanakh by bookTorah by bookTorah by parsha
RateCount
Alef95,68579.9 per 1,000Alef across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesBet65,21654.5 per 1,000Bet across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesGimel10,0808.4 per 1,000Gimel across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesDalet32,37127.0 per 1,000Dalet across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesHe101,96285.2 per 1,000He across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesVav129,605108.3 per 1,000Vav across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesZayin9,0997.6 per 1,000Zayin across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesChet27,59823.1 per 1,000Chet across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesTet6,3105.3 per 1,000Tet across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesYod137,871115.2 per 1,000Yod across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesKaf47,46839.7 per 1,000Kaf across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesLamed88,30273.8 per 1,000Lamed across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesMem98,92982.6 per 1,000Mem across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesNun55,09346.0 per 1,000Nun across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesSamech7,6356.4 per 1,000Samech across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesAyin44,81137.4 per 1,000Ayin across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesPe18,28415.3 per 1,000Pe across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesTzadi14,97712.5 per 1,000Tzadi across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesKuf16,27813.6 per 1,000Kuf across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesResh68,06456.9 per 1,000Resh across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesShin58,19848.6 per 1,000Shin across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrencesTav63,20652.8 per 1,000Tav across the books of the Tanakh, the Twelve standing apart — thirty-five in canonical order, occurrences

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