About Remove Consonants
Remove Consonants deletes the twenty-one consonants of the Latin alphabet from your text, in either case, and leaves the vowels a, e, i, o and u where they were. Digits, punctuation, spaces and any character outside the plain Latin set all survive untouched, and the result is recalculated as you type. The case of the surviving vowels is preserved, so an uppercase A stays uppercase.
The consonant list includes y, which matters more than it first appears. In words such as rhythm or gym the y is carrying the only vowel sound, and it goes with the rest, leaving an empty stretch between the spaces. The page has no setting to keep y - the vowel list is fixed at five letters, and that is a genuine limitation rather than an oversight in the interface.
The tool answers two very different questions. One is linguistic: reducing a line to its vowels is a step in some word puzzles, pattern studies and language-teaching exercises. The other is mechanical: seeing the vowel skeleton of a string makes typos and doubled letters obvious in a way the full text hides. What it never does is count - the number of consonants removed has to be taken from the counting page before anything is deleted.
How to use Remove Consonants
- 1 Paste the text into the panel - the sample gives an immediate example of the effect.
- 2 Read the live output, where only vowels and non-letters remain.
- 3 Note that y is treated as a consonant and removed, even when it sounds like a vowel.
- 4 Copy the result if the vowel-only view is what you needed.
Frequently asked questions
Why is the letter y always removed?
The rule works from a fixed list of twenty-one consonants, and y is on it. There is no setting to reclassify it, so a word like gym loses its y along with g and m. Pages that need y kept have to restore it by hand.
Are accented consonants or other alphabets affected?
No. Only the plain Latin consonants are matched, so accented letters from other alphabets survive, and whole scripts such as Cyrillic or Greek pass through untouched. The tool is exact about which characters it knows.
How do I know how many consonants were removed?
This page does not report a count - it only produces the reduced text. The consonant counting tool gives the figure, and it is worth running it before removing anything if the number itself matters.
Does the spacing change when consonants are deleted?
No. Spaces are not letters, so they survive in place, and the vowels of neighbouring words stay separated by the original gaps. Collapsing or normalising those gaps is a separate whitespace operation.
Free, online, and private
Free to use
Remove Consonants is completely free. There is no account to create, no login, and no hidden charge or usage limit.
Runs online in your browser
It is a free online tool that runs entirely in your browser. Nothing to download or install — open the page and start using it right away.
Your data stays private
All processing happens locally on your device. Your input is never uploaded, stored, or tracked, so it never leaves your browser.
How Remove Consonants behaves in detail
These are the specifics of this implementation — the exact ranges, defaults and fixed settings you are working with.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Input | one text panel, recalculated live as you type |
| Rule | the twenty-one Latin consonants are removed, case-insensitively, in a single pass |
| Y handling | y is on the consonant list and is always removed, even where it sounds like a vowel |
| What survives | the vowels a, e, i, o and u in either case, plus digits, punctuation, whitespace and all non-Latin text |
| Case preservation | surviving vowels keep their original case, with no case change applied |
| Output | the remaining characters in their original order and spacing |
Compiled from the implementation of this tool and checked against it by itoolnet.
What Remove Consonants does not do
Knowing the edges of a tool saves more time than another list of its features. These are the cases where it will not do what you might expect.
- The letter y is always treated as a consonant. Words such as gym or rhythm, whose y carries the only vowel sound, come out as blank stretches between spaces, and there is no setting to keep it - the vowel list is fixed at five.
- Only the plain Latin consonants are matched. An accented consonant from another alphabet survives, so multilingual text is cleaned unevenly, and the consonants of non-Latin scripts are not touched at all.
- There is no companion count, no vowel-only view of the result and no way to see what was removed. The count of consonants in the original has to be taken from the separate counting tool before anything is deleted here.
Tested and documented by itoolnet, the team that builds and maintains this site.