Mode Calculator

Find the most frequently occurring value (or values) in a list.

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How to use this calculator

Enter your numbers.
Read the mode (or modes).

About this calculator

The mode is the most-frequent value in a dataset. It's the only "average" that works for categorical data ("most popular shoe size", "most-ordered menu item"). A dataset can be unimodal (one mode), bimodal (two), or multimodal — and if every value is unique, there's no mode.

Frequently asked

Can a dataset have no mode?+

Yes — if every value appears exactly once.

Can a dataset have multiple modes?+

Yes — bimodal (two), trimodal (three), multimodal (more). Multimodal datasets often indicate a mixture of two underlying groups.

When is mode the right choice?+

For categorical data ("most-watched genre"), or to identify the typical case in a skewed distribution. For symmetric distributions, mean and mode are usually the same.

Does the mode work on decimals?+

Yes, but in practice continuous data rarely has exact repeats. Round or bin the data first if you're looking for a "modal range".

How is mode different from median?+

Median is the middle of the sorted list. Mode is the most frequent. They can differ — [1, 2, 2, 3, 4] has mode 2 and median 2 (coincidentally the same), but [1, 2, 3, 3, 100] has mode 3 and median 3.

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