Vowel and Consonant Counter
Count vowels, consonants and letters instantly.
How to use
- 1 Type or paste your text into the box.
- 2 Read the live vowel and consonant totals in the cards below.
- 3 Tick “Count y as a vowel” if you want y grouped with the vowels.
- 4 Check the extra stats for letters, digits, words and characters.
About Vowel and Consonant Counter
The Vowel and Consonant Counter breaks any block of text down into its building blocks and tallies them live as you type.
Paste a sentence, a paragraph or a whole document and instantly see how many vowels and consonants it contains, along with the total number of letters, digits, words and characters.
The counter classifies every alphabetic character as either a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) or a consonant, working case-insensitively so uppercase and lowercase are treated the same.
Because the letter “y” sits on the fence between the two groups, a single checkbox lets you decide: leave it off to count “y” as a consonant, or switch it on to count it as a vowel — useful for phonics lessons, linguistics exercises and word-game strategy.
Punctuation, spaces and symbols are ignored for the letter tallies but still contribute to the overall character count.
This is handy for students checking spelling patterns, teachers building literacy worksheets, crossword and Scrabble players sizing up a rack, and writers curious about the texture of their prose.
Everything runs entirely in your browser, so your text is never uploaded or stored and the tool keeps working offline once loaded.
FAQ
Is the letter “y” a vowel or a consonant here?
By default “y” is counted as a consonant. Tick the “Count y as a vowel” box to move it into the vowel total instead.
Do punctuation and spaces affect the counts?
Punctuation, spaces and symbols are ignored when counting vowels, consonants and letters, but they still count toward the total character figure.