CalcWhenLetter Counter
In “Hello world” there are 10 letters: 3 vowels (e, o, o) and 7 consonants — the space is not a letter and is never counted as one.
How it works
Sometimes the question is not characters but letters: a puzzle that allows 100 letters, a game scoring alphabetic tiles, an assignment that says letters, not keystrokes. This counter isolates the alphabet — A to Z, either case — and reports vowels and consonants separately, with digits, spaces and total characters alongside for cross-checking.
Accented letters and other scripts are reported in the total character count; the letter tally follows the A–Z convention most puzzles and games use, and the method note says so in the open.
The method
Letters are characters matching A–Z or a–z. Vowels are a, e, i, o, u (either case); every other letter is a consonant (y counts as a consonant here). Digits 0–9 and spaces are tallied separately; everything else lands in the total characters figure only.
Frequently asked questions
Is “y” a vowel or a consonant here?
A consonant — the standard counting convention. In words like “rhythm” it does vowel duty, but counters and games score it as a consonant.
What about accented letters like é?
They are included in the total characters but not in the A–Z letter tally, matching the convention of most word games and puzzle rules.
Why separate vowels and consonants?
For word games, anagrams, linguistics exercises and writing constraints (lipograms — texts avoiding a letter — are checked exactly this way).