Return the most common element as a string not a list python

Question

I know I can use the counter from collections to return the most common elements in an array or a string and so on. However this counter returns a list of the n most common elements and their counts from the most common to the least. Lets say I want to find most common characters in a string using counter:

Counter('abracadabra').most_common(1)

This will however return an answer of type list like this:

[('a', 5)]

Is there a way to return only the character "a" as a type of string without the times it is repeated?

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

How about just grabbing the string from the output of Counter.most_common()?

something like:

Counter('abracadabra').most_common(1)[0][0]