Awk script to assist in consonant-vowel frequency analysis

consonant_vowel_pattern.awk

#!/bin/awk -f

# Converts words into consonant-vowel patterns
# Combine output with `sort | uniq -c | sort -rg` to list most to least common

{
  split(tolower($1), chars, "")

  for (i in chars) {
    char = chars[i]
    if (char ~ /[aeiou]/) {
      printf("v")
    } else {
      printf("c")
    }
  }

  printf("\n")
}