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Vowel Counter
Count the vowels in any text, with a breakdown per letter.
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Quick Tool Overview
The Vowel Counter counts the vowels in any word or text and breaks the total down by letter, so you can see not just that a word has four vowels but exactly which ones. The letter y can be counted or ignored, because it genuinely behaves as both.
- What it does
- Counts vowels with a per-letter breakdown
- You give it
- A word, a sentence or a full page
- You get back
- The vowel total, each vowel counted, and the consonant total
- Best for
- Literacy exercises, puzzles and linguistics coursework
About the Vowel Counter
Counting vowels by hand is easy to get wrong and tedious past a sentence or two. This tool counts them for you and breaks the total down by letter, so you can see that a word has four vowels and exactly which ones they are. It is a common exercise in primary literacy work, in puzzle solving and in linguistics coursework.
The five standard English vowels — a, e, i, o and u — are always counted. The letter y is optional, because it is a vowel in "rhythm" and a consonant in "yellow", and there is no single right answer; a switch lets you decide. Accented vowels such as é and ü can be folded in with their plain forms, which matters for names and loanwords.
Key features of the Vowel Counter
Per-vowel breakdown
A, e, i, o and u are each counted separately with their share of the total, not lumped into one figure.
Y is your decision
Count y as a vowel for words like "myth" or leave it out for the strict five-vowel rule — a switch rather than an assumption.
Accented vowels folded in
É counts with e and ü with u, so names and loanwords are counted the way a reader would count them.
Consonants shown alongside
The consonant total and the vowel-to-consonant ratio sit beside the headline figure.
Case makes no difference
A and a are the same vowel and count together, in the total and in the breakdown.
How to use the Vowel Counter
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Enter your text
A single word, a sentence or a whole page.
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Decide about y
Switch y on if your exercise treats it as a vowel; leave it off for the strict five-vowel rule.
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Read the total
The headline figure is the number of vowels found.
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Check the breakdown
Each vowel is listed with its own count and share of the total.
Frequently asked questions
It depends on the word. In "myth" and "gym" it does the work of a vowel; in "yes" and "yellow" it is a consonant. Because both answers are defensible, this tool makes it a switch rather than deciding for you.
Yes, when the "fold accents" option is on, which it is by default. É is counted with e, ü with u, and so on. Turn it off if you need only unaccented ASCII vowels counted.
Yes. A and a are the same vowel, so both count towards the same total and the same per-letter figure.
The consonant total is shown beside the vowel one here, and the dedicated Consonant Counter gives the same per-letter breakdown for consonants.
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