Vowel counter
Type something and the most frequent words show up here.
A, E, I, O and U are counted as vowels, everything else alphabetic as a consonant. Accented forms count with their base letter, so "é" is a vowel.
How to count vowels
Y is the awkward one and there is no rule that settles it. It is treated as a consonant here, which is the schoolroom convention, and it is genuinely a vowel in "rhythm", "myth" and "gym", where it is the only vowel sound in the word. If Y matters for what you are doing — a word game, a phonics exercise — count it by hand. The vowel ratio is worth glancing at for anything you will read aloud: English prose runs around 38 to 40 percent vowels, and text far below that is usually cluttered with abbreviations or is genuinely hard to say.
Questions
Not here — it is counted as a consonant, following the usual convention. It genuinely is a vowel in words like "rhythm" and "gym", so adjust by hand if that matters.