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Verified for the 2026 examโขWritten by the Fiveable Content Team โข Last updated September 2025
Definition
Even frequency refers to the occurrence of an element in a list or array that appears an equal number of times as other elements. In other words, every element with even frequency occurs the same number of times.
Related terms
oddFrequency: Odd frequency is the opposite of even frequency, where an element occurs an unequal number of times compared to other elements.
countOccurrences: Count occurrences is a function or algorithm that calculates how many times a specific element appears in a list or array.
mode: Mode is the value(s) that appear most frequently in a dataset. In terms of even frequency, if there is only one mode and it occurs equally throughout the dataset, then it has an even frequency.