If you have a long list of cells which contains some duplicate values, now, you want to find the most common text value which appears in the data list in Google sheets. How could you solve this job without checking one by one?
Find the most common value in a list in Google sheets with formula
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Find the most common value in a list in Google sheets with formula
The following formula can help you to find the most common value in a list, please do as this:
Enter the following formula into a blank cell where you want to output the result, and then press Enter key, the most common value in the list will be displayed at once, see screenshot:
=ARRAYFORMULA(INDEX(A2:A17,MATCH(MAX(COUNTIF(A2:A17,A2:A17)),COUNTIF(A2:A17,A2:A17),0)))
To get the number of times which the most common value appears, you can apply this formula:
=ARRAYFORMULA(MAX(COUNTIF(A2:A17,A2:A17)))
Notes:
1. If you want to return the time occurence of each text, please apply the below formula into a blank cell, and then press Enter key to get the result:
=QUERY(A2:A17,"select A, count(A) where A is not null group by A order by count(A) DESC label A 'Product', count(A) 'Count'",-1)
2. In the above formulas, A2:A17 is the list of cells that you want to find the most common value from.
Find the most common value in a list in Microsoft Excel with Kutools for Excel
To find the most frequent value in a list in Excel worksheet, the Kutools for Excel’s Find most common value utility can help you without remebering any formulas.
Note:To apply this Find most common value, firstly, you should download the Kutools for Excel, and then apply the feature quickly and easily.
After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as this:
1. Click a blank cell where you want to output the result, and then click Kutools > Formula Helper > Formula Helper, see screenshot:
2. In the Formulas Helper dialog box, do the following operations:
- Select Lookup option from the Formula Type drop down list;
- Then choose Find most common value from the Choose a fromula list box;
- In the right Arguments input section, select a list of cells that you want to extract the most common value beside the Range.
3. And then click Ok button, the most common value has been displayed into the selected cell, see screenshot:
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Paul Lanzi
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If you're trying to accomplish this across multiple columns, just through the FLATTEN() function around the range of your multiple columns. For instance:
instead of: A2:A17
Your data is in column A, B, C and D, you'd put:
flatten(A2:D17)
Making the entire formula look like:
=ARRAYFORMULA(INDEX(flatten(A2:D17),MATCH(MAX(COUNTIF(flatten(A2:D17),flatten(A2:D17))),COUNTIF(flatten(A2:D17),flatten(A2:D17)),0)))
Cheers!
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Cathal
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Hi,
How would I use this function but calculate only a subtotal of a filter.
I tried something like this but it didn't seem to work
=ARRAYFORMULA(INDEX(subtotal(101,A2:A17),MATCH(MAX(COUNTIF(subtotal(101,A2:A17,A2:A17))),COUNTIF(subtotal(101,A2:A17,A2:A17),0)))
Can't seem to figure it out and I've been searching the web for hours.
Thanks!
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sean doyle
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Hello. Thank you so much for posting this -- it was a huge help. How would the formula change if I wanted the 2nd most common, 3rd most common, etc value in a list? Thanks.
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Damien Lesser
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How do you exclude a particular value from the formula, such as —
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