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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 five books of the Torah, and the bars are rates per 1,000 letters — so a long book and a short one compare honestly.

Tanakh by bookTorah by bookTorah by parsha
RateCount
Alef95,68579.9 per 1,000Alef across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersBet65,21654.5 per 1,000Bet across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersGimel10,0808.4 per 1,000Gimel across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersDalet32,37127.0 per 1,000Dalet across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersHe101,96285.2 per 1,000He across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersVav129,605108.3 per 1,000Vav across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersZayin9,0997.6 per 1,000Zayin across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersChet27,59823.1 per 1,000Chet across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersTet6,3105.3 per 1,000Tet across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersYod137,871115.2 per 1,000Yod across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersKaf47,46839.7 per 1,000Kaf across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersLamed88,30273.8 per 1,000Lamed across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersMem98,92982.6 per 1,000Mem across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersNun55,09346.0 per 1,000Nun across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersSamech7,6356.4 per 1,000Samech across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersAyin44,81137.4 per 1,000Ayin across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersPe18,28415.3 per 1,000Pe across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersTzadi14,97712.5 per 1,000Tzadi across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersKuf16,27813.6 per 1,000Kuf across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersResh68,06456.9 per 1,000Resh across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersShin58,19848.6 per 1,000Shin across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 lettersTav63,20652.8 per 1,000Tav across the five books of the Torah, per 1,000 letters

Compare letters

Tick 2 to 6 letters and they are drawn on one chart across the five books of the Torah. Beyond 6 the legend becomes the chart, so that is where it stops.

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