Random letter generator

In Letter mode the tool picks from the 26 letters of the English alphabet, A to Z. Every letter has the same chance. Tick Skip hard letters (Q, U, V, X, Y, Z) to leave out the letters that are hardest to find words for. That's the same set left off the letter die in Scattergories, so it suits category games well. With hard letters skipped, the pool has 20 letters.

Ask for more than one letter and they'll all be different. Picking all 26 gives you the alphabet in a random order.

Word mode draws from built-in lists of simple English nouns (like river, candle, owl), verbs (like jump, bake, climb or dance) and adjectives (like brave, shiny, noisy). Tick one or more word types; the tool mixes them. It's a quick source of:

• Pictionary and charades prompts
• Creative writing prompts: draw three nouns and write a story that uses all of them
• Drawing practice: an adjective plus a noun ("tiny castle", "sad cloud")
• Vocabulary practice for young learners and ESL classes

The word lists are deliberately short and kid-friendly, so they're best for games and prompts rather than as a dictionary.

Teachers also use random letters for phonics practice and for calling on students by initial.

Letters and words are picked with your browser's cryptographic random generator. Within one pick there are no repeats; between picks, any letter can come up again, just like rolling a letter die. The last few picks are listed under the result, so you can avoid replaying a letter you just used.

If you play several rounds of a category game, you can also draw five or ten letters at once at the start of the game and work through them in order. That guarantees no letter is used twice during the game, and everyone can see the plan.

Need a random number instead? Use the random number generator. For names of people or characters, try the random name generator, and for picking from your own list, spin the wheel. Nothing you do here is stored or uploaded.