Which characters count as vowels?

By default the five letters a, e, i, o, and u, in both uppercase and lowercase. You can optionally include y, which is sometimes treated as a vowel depending on its position in a word.

What is disemvoweling used for?

It is a playful way to shorten or obscure text, a light obfuscation for puzzles and forum moderation, and a demonstration that English often stays readable without vowels. It is not encryption and offers no security.

Are spaces and punctuation kept?

Yes. Only vowel letters are removed. Consonants, digits, spaces, and all punctuation pass through unchanged so word boundaries stay visible.

Can I get the vowels back afterwards?

No. Removing vowels is a lossy, one-way operation because the original vowels are discarded. Keep a copy of your source text if you need to restore it later.

Vowel Remover — Gera Tools

A vowel remover, or disemvoweler, deletes every vowel from a piece of text and leaves the consonants behind. The result is often still surprisingly legible, which is why disemvoweling is popular for puzzles, shorthand, and lightweight text obfuscation.

How it works

The tool reads your text character by character and keeps only those characters that are not vowels:

vowels = "aeiou"   (or "aeiouy" if y is included)
for each char:
    if char.toLowerCase() is not in vowels:
        keep it

Comparing the lowercased character against the vowel set means both A and a are removed. Everything else, including numbers, spaces, and punctuation, is copied straight to the output.

Example and notes

The phrase The quick brown fox becomes Th qck brwn fx. Turning on the y option changes Why try? into Wh tr?. Because the original vowels are thrown away, the process cannot be reversed, so save your source text if you need it.