Get lowest frequency in array JS

Question

I am making a random letters generator. It has to find a given word in the least amount of tries. It lists the number of tries everytime in an array. I want to get the least frequent value in the array.

I already got the most frequent value to work with this

I tried this for lowest frequency but it doesn't work and gives me the last item, with 1 occurence everytime :

var mif = 1;
var itemin;
if (m <= mif) {
    mif = m;
    itemin = generations[i];
}

Answer 1

You should initialize your var with a bigger value :

var arr1 = [3, 'a', 'a', 'a', 2, 3, 'a', 3, 'a', 2, 4, 9, 3];
var mif = 99999999999999;
var m = 0;
var itemin;
for (var i = 0; i < arr1.length; i++) {
  for (var j = 0; j < arr1.length; j++) {
    if (arr1[i] == arr1[j])
      m++;
  }
  if (mif > m) {
    mif = m;
    itemin = arr1[i];
  }
  console.log(arr1[i] + ' exist ' + m + ' times in array');
  m = 0;
}
console.log('item less frequent : ' + itemin);