Random Word Generator
Get random nouns, verbs, adjectives or animals for games and ideas.
Random Word Generator: the tool
Settings
245 words in this list.
Up to 100.
Result
Choose a kind of word and press Generate.
Pick a kind of word, say how many you want and press Generate. Use it for drawing games, writing prompts, naming a project, icebreakers and vocabulary practice. The words come from a built-in list of plain English, and the draw happens in your browser.
How it works
The words are chosen from four built-in lists: 82 nouns, 60 verbs, 50 adjectives and 53 animals, 245 in all. They are everyday words, short and easy to spell. Each draw picks from the list you chose using your browser's cryptographic random generator, so every word on the list has the same chance. Any kind of word draws from all four lists together.
With Never repeat a word ticked, the generator draws without replacement, so each word appears at most once in a result. Without it, the same word can come up twice, the way a die can land on the same face twice. You can show the words in lowercase, Capitalized or UPPERCASE, and copy them separated by a space, a comma, a new line or nothing at all.
The list is small on purpose, and that matters for one use in particular. A word chosen from 245 has about 7.9 bits of unpredictability, so even a six-word phrase falls well short of what a secure passphrase needs. For passwords, use the random password generator, or a password manager. This tool is for games, ideas and tests.
How to use it
- Choose the kind of word: any, nouns, verbs, adjectives or animals.
- Enter how many words you want and choose how they should be capitalized.
- Press Generate. A single word is shown large, and several are shown as a row.
- Copy the words with the separator you like, or press Generate again for new ones.
Example
Five different nouns drawn with a fixed sequence, the way you might pick prompts for a writing exercise. Your own draws will differ.
What was set
- Kind
- nouns
- How many
- 5, never repeating
What came out
- Words
- yogurt, pocket, velvet, village, balloon
Good to know
- You can draw from 1 to 100 words at a time. With no repeats, you can draw at most as many words as the list holds.
- The lists are for fun, not for language learning or for security. They contain no rare words, no proper names and no words that would need a warning.
- The words are English only, and they are not tagged by difficulty, topic or level.
Questions people ask
Where do the words come from?
From four lists written for this site and stored in the page itself, so nothing is fetched while you use it. They hold everyday nouns, verbs, adjectives and animals. They were chosen to be short, familiar and inoffensive.
Can I get a word of a certain kind?
Yes. Use Kind of word to restrict the draw to nouns, verbs, adjectives or animals. Draw a verb, an adjective and a noun to build a quirky phrase.
Can the same word appear twice?
Only if you untick Never repeat a word. By default each word is drawn at most once per result, which is the usual wish when you want several different prompts.
Can I use random words as a password?
Not with this tool. A passphrase made of random words is a good idea, but it needs a list of thousands of words to be strong. This list has only a few hundred, so use the password generator instead.
Is there a limit to how many words I can generate?
You can draw up to 100 at a time, and as many times as you like. Each draw is independent of the last.