title: On python, how to check the amount of times a letter is in a word (list)
body: <p>So I have a stored word. And the user is invited to check if a letter of their choice is in this word. My code for this is the following</p>
  
  <pre><code>storedword = "abcdeef"
  word = list(germ)
  print (word)
  merge = input("letter please")
  
  print ("your letter is", merge)
  
  counter = int(0)
  letterchecker = int(0)
  listlength = len(word)
  while counter &lt; listlength and merge != word[counter]:
      counter +=1
  
  if counter &lt;listlength:
      print ("found")
  
  else:
      print ("not found")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I alter this code to check how many times the user letter is in this word? I can only use if's and while loops and not using .count</p>