Remove vowels from text

Spaces, digits and punctuation are never touched, so the word shapes stay visible. Under the result you see three numbers: how many vowels and consonants the text contains, and how many letters were removed or replaced.

• Keep the first letter of each word. The first letter stays even if it's a vowel: apple orange becomes appl orng instead of ppl rng. This makes vowel-less text much easier to read.
• Count y as a vowel. By default only a, e, i, o, u are vowels. Turn this on to treat y as a vowel too, which suits words like gym, myth and rhythm where y carries the vowel sound. In words like yes it is a consonant, so choose whichever fits your text.
• Replacement symbol. In replace mode, type any character or string: _, *, • or even [ ].

Accented vowels such as é, ü or ø count as vowels as well, so text with borrowed words like café or naïve is handled correctly. Upper- and lowercase are both processed.

• Word games and puzzles. "Guess the phrase without vowels" is a classic party game and quiz round: Wht s th cptl f Frnc? Replace mode creates fill-in-the-blank puzzles like Th_ q__ck br_wn f_x.
• Reading research and teaching. Show students how much meaning consonants carry in English, or practice phonics by filling the vowels back in.
• Abbreviations. Removing vowels is a quick way to brainstorm short names or usernames: Kitchen → Ktchn, Project → Prjct, with the first letter kept: Update → Updt.
• Text effects for posts and memes.

Hebrew and Arabic are traditionally written mostly without vowels, and many English abbreviations (bldg, mgmt, pkg) drop them too, which is why vowel-less text is often still readable.

Vowel letters typically make up somewhere around 35–40% of the letters in ordinary English prose, which is why removing them shortens a text so noticeably while leaving it mostly readable. The exact share depends on the text: technical writing full of abbreviations has fewer, while simple children's books often have more. The vowel and consonant counts above the result let you check your own text.

Input: Can you still read text without its vowels?

• Remove vowels: Cn y stll rd txt wtht ts vwls?
• Remove vowels, keep first letter: Cn y stll rd txt wtht its vwls?
• Replace with •: C•n y•• st•ll r••d t•xt w•th••t •ts v•w•ls?

Notice that y in you stays because, by default, y is treated as a consonant.

• Case converter for uppercase, lowercase and title case.
• Reverse text for backwards and upside-down text.
• Find and replace to remove or swap specific letters only.

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