Letter counter
Type something and the most frequent words show up here.
Letters are counted strictly: spaces, digits, punctuation and symbols are all excluded, which makes this a smaller number than the character count. Vowels and consonants are split out.
How to count letters
The distinction people trip over is letters versus characters. "Hello, world!" has thirteen characters, twelve without spaces, and ten letters: the comma and exclamation mark are characters but not letters. Accented letters are counted as letters, so "café" is four; that is the sensible answer for a word game or a crossword and worth knowing if you are counting for a system that treats them differently. Y is counted as a consonant here, which is the conventional choice and wrong about half the time in practice, since Y is a vowel in "rhythm" and a consonant in "yellow".
Questions
Characters include spaces, digits and punctuation; letters do not. "Hello, world!" is thirteen characters and ten letters.
Yes. "café" counts as four letters, which is right for word games and crosswords.
It is counted as a consonant, which is the convention. In practice Y is a vowel in words like "rhythm", so treat that split as approximate.
Not as letters. They are shown separately.
Yes; type just the word.