Letter wheel

An alphabet wheel is a spinner wheel with a letter on each slice. It's handy when you need a random letter and want everyone to see the spin, so nobody can say the host picked it.

Common uses:

• Scattergories-style games: the wheel picks the starting letter for every category.
• Phonics and early reading: students find words or objects that start with the letter.
• Word games: name five animals, a country and a food that start with the letter.
• Language class: vocabulary review by letter.

If you just need a letter with no spin, the random letter generator is quicker.

The letter set buttons replace the wheel's contents in one click:

Set	Letters	Chance per letter
A–Z	26 letters	3.85%
Vowels	A, E, I, O, U	20%
Consonants	21 letters	4.76%
a–z	lowercase	3.85%

For Scattergories, many groups take out the hard letters, like Q, U, V, X, Y and Z, because almost no answers start with them. Just delete those lines, or add *0 to the end of a line to switch it off without deleting it.

The classic category game is quicker and fairer with a wheel:

1. Everyone writes the categories: a country, a city, a boy's name, a girl's name, an animal, a food, something in this room.
2. Spin the wheel in full screen so everyone sees the letter.
3. Start a timer, for example with the classroom timer, and fill in the categories.
4. Score: a unique valid answer is worth a point; answers someone else also wrote score nothing.

Turn on winner removal and no letter repeats within a game. Drawn letters are listed under the wheel and go back on with one click.

The letter wheel works for plenty of games beyond Scattergories:

• Word chain by letter: your word has to start with the letter, and anyone who can't find one in 30 seconds is out.
• Charades or Pictionary with a twist: the word you act out or draw must start with the letter.
• Name five: five animals, foods or jobs that start with the letter, against the clock.
• Spelling practice: collect tricky words that begin with the letter.

You can also put syllables on the wheel (ba, be, bi, bo, bu) for the next step in early reading. Colors, sounds and theme are all adjustable, and in full screen the letter shows up in huge type.

In the early grades, a letter wheel turns letter practice into a game:

• Letter hunt: students look for things in the room that start with the letter.
• Say the sound: students say the letter's sound and a word that starts with it.
• Only taught letters: keep only the letters your class has learned and add more each week.
• Upper and lower case: use the a–z set to practice recognizing lowercase letters.

Every wheel feature works here too: themes and custom colors, five sound sets, confetti, full screen (Space or Enter to spin), winner removal, saved wheels, history with CSV export and a share link. This page saves its own list separately, so it won't overwrite your list on spin the wheel.