Vowel and Consonant Counter

In short A vowel counter separates letters into vowels and consonants and reports both, along with digits, spaces and the ratio between them. English runs at roughly two consonants for every vowel in ordinary prose, and a text far from that ratio is usually not ordinary prose — it may be a list of abbreviations, a password, code, or a language with different phonotactics. The tool counts A, E, I, O and U as vowels and treats Y as a consonant, which is the conventional choice and also the arbitrary one: Y is a vowel in "rhythm" and a consonant in "yellow", and no rule that works on letters alone can tell those apart without knowing the word. The same limitation applies to W in Welsh loanwords. This matters for word games, for teaching, and for the small class of writing constraints built on letter classes — a lipogram that avoids E, for instance, is checked here in one paste rather than by reading. Accented vowels are counted as vowels when the text has been normalised first.