Consonant Counter — Count Consonants in Any Text
Count every consonant in your text instantly — quick letter frequency stats for word games, linguistics, and text analysis. Free and client-side.
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Input
rhythm and blues Output
Consonants: 11 y is counted as a consonant, so "rhythm" contributes six on its own: r, h, y, t, h, m.
Common Use Cases
Word-game verification
Confirm consonant counts for crossword clues, Scrabble-style puzzles and constrained-writing challenges, where a miscount only surfaces long after you have already committed to an answer.
Text statistics homework
Cross-check manual letter-classification exercises instantly, so a student can verify their own working rather than waiting for an answer key to mark the whole sheet wrong.
Comparing two drafts
Track how the consonant-to-vowel balance shifts between versions of a paragraph, which is one rough proxy for how dense a sentence sounds when it is read aloud.
Checking constrained-writing rules
Verify that a lipogram, tongue-twister or passphrase meets its letter rule before you publish it, rather than counting characters by hand and trusting the result.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How are consonants identified?
- Every letter from b to z except the vowels a, e, i, o and u, matched case-insensitively so uppercase and lowercase count the same. Digits, spaces, punctuation and symbols are ignored entirely, so the total reflects letters alone. Paste a whole document and the count keeps up as fast as you can type.
- Is y counted as a consonant?
- Yes. y counts as a consonant here, the conventional choice for a simple counter, even though phonetically it often carries a vowel sound — in "rhythm" and "syzygy" it does exactly that, and neither word contains a, e, i, o or u at all. If you need the opposite convention, subtract the number of y characters yourself.
- How do I count vowels instead?
- Use the Count Vowels tool, which applies the mirror-image rule and counts only a, e, i, o and u. For a broader breakdown — words, characters, sentences and paragraphs at once — the Word & Character Counter reports the full set of statistics rather than a single letter class.
- Are accented letters counted?
- No. The match covers unaccented ASCII letters only, so é, ñ and ü are skipped rather than folded to their base letter. "café" therefore reports two consonants, c and f, not three. If your text is heavily accented and you need those letters included, convert it to plain ASCII before pasting it in.
- What is a normal consonant-to-vowel ratio in English?
- Running English text sits near 60% consonants to 40% vowels, though individual words swing wildly — "strengths" is almost entirely consonants while "aeon" is almost none. Treat the ratio as a rough style signal rather than a rule: a passage far outside it usually reads as either clipped or sing-song.
- Is my data private when I use this tool?
- Yes. This tool runs entirely in your browser using client-side JavaScript — nothing you type is transmitted to, logged by, or stored on any server. You can safely process confidential text, tokens, or code.