

Count
Details and Options

- The first argument to Count need not have head List.
- When used on an Association, Count tests only the values of elements, not their keys.
- Count uses standard level specifications:
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n levels 1 through n Infinity levels 1 through Infinity {n} level n only {n1,n2} levels n1 through n2 - The default value for levelspec in Count is {1}.
- A positive level n consists of all parts of expr specified by n indices.
- A negative level -n consists of all parts of expr with depth n.
- Level -1 consists of numbers, symbols and other objects that do not have subparts.
- Level 0 corresponds to the whole expression.
- With the option setting Heads->True, Count looks at heads of expressions and their parts.
- Count[pattern][expr] is equivalent to Count[expr,pattern].
- Parallelize[Count[list,pattern]] computes Count[list,pattern] in parallel on all subkernels. »
Examples
open all close allBasic Examples (4)
Count how many times b occurs:
Count powers of x in an Association:
Scope (5)
Count works with patterns:
Count the number of elements not matching b:
Count occurrences of b down to level 2:
Count occurrences at level 2 only:
Count all numeric expressions appearing as part of a larger expression:
Options (1)
Applications (3)
Properties & Relations (5)
Count returns the length of the result given by Cases:
Count returns the length of the result given by Position:
A count at level {0} is effectively a numericized version of MatchQ:
For most expressions, LeafCount equals the count matching Blank[] at level {-1}:
Count treats Rational and Complex as atoms:
LeafCount counts Rational and Complex numbers using their FullForm:
Compute Count in parallel:
History
Introduced in 1988 (1.0) | Updated in 2014 (10.0)
Text
Wolfram Research (1988), Count, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Count.html (updated 2014).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1988. "Count." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2014. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Count.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1988). Count. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Count.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_count, author="Wolfram Research", title="{Count}", year="2014", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Count.html}", note=[Accessed: 12-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_count, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={Count}, year={2014}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Count.html}, note=[Accessed: 12-August-2025]}