Free Random Word Generator

Worked example

With the default settings (English, "Nouns", "Everyday", "How many" 5), type class-7B into "Seed (optional)". The five words are beach, eraser, omelet, brownie and vase. Anyone who uses the same seed and options gets the same five in the same order. Press "New words" and the next list in that seed's sequence appears: horse, bicycle, harbor, goat and lettuce. If you set "Copy as" to "Comma-separated" and press "Copy list", the clipboard holds "beach, eraser, omelet, brownie, vase".

Which settings to use, and the limits

• Pick a word type, or a word set for a theme. "Nouns", "Verbs", "Adjectives" and "Mixed" are the word types; "Mixed" splits the count evenly across nouns, verbs and adjectives. The "Word set" menu offers "Animals", "Food", "Objects", "Places" and "Actions (charades)", and a set replaces the word type, as the hint says. In English the everyday lists hold 430 nouns, 112 verbs and 96 adjectives. The sets hold 104 animals, 103 foods, 163 objects and 60 places, and "Actions (charades)" draws from the same 112 verbs.
• Choose the language, and know that only English has rare words. The "Language" menu lists English, Türkçe, Deutsch, Español, Français, Português, Bahasa Indonesia, Русский, Українська, فارسی and العربية, each named in its own language. It starts on your page language if it is one of these, otherwise English. The "Difficulty" menu ("Everyday", "Rare and poetic", "Both") is greyed out for every language except English, and whenever a word set is chosen. Changing language resets "Starts with" and "Difficulty".
• Set how many words you need, and use Game mode for play. "How many" is a slider from 1 to 100 and starts at 5. "Game mode" opens a full-screen view that starts with the words currently on screen and shows one large word at a time, labelled like "Word 1 of 5". Use "Next word" and "Back", or the right and left arrow keys, and Escape or "Close" to leave. At the last word the button becomes "New words" and draws a fresh list of up to 20 words.
• Narrow the list with a first letter and a length range. "Starts with" lists only the first letters that exist for the current type and language. "Min letters" and "Max letters" accept 0 to 30, and an empty box turns that filter off. Length is counted in characters. In English, everyday nouns that start with b and are 5 or 6 letters long give 18 words, so asking for 20 words from that filter returns 18 and says so.
• Use a seed to give a group the same words. Without a seed, every "New words" press starts from a random seed and the tool tries to avoid repeating the words you just saw. With a seed of up to 40 characters, the same seed, language, type, set, filters and "How many" always give the same list, and each "New words" press moves to the next list in that seed's sequence. The "Share result" button copies a link that carries your settings and this roll, so someone else sees the same words. The page notes that the link shares the roll without your locked words.
• Lock words, then copy or download the list. Click a word to lock it, and it stays in place when you press "New words". The small icon beside each word copies just that word. "Copy as" sets the layout for "Copy list" and "Download .txt": "One per line", "Comma-separated" or "Numbered list". The download is a plain text file named random-words-en.txt, with the language code in the name. "Previous rolls" keeps your last 5 lists with a copy button on each.

Common problems and how to fix them

It says "Only 18 words match these options." or "No words match these options."

The filters leave fewer words than "How many" asks for, so the tool shows all it has. The number in the message is how many matched. Loosen "Starts with", widen "Min letters" and "Max letters", lower "How many", or switch the type to "Mixed". In English you can also set "Difficulty" to "Both" to add the rare words. The "Starts with" menu does not know about your length range, so a letter and length can still leave nothing.

It says "Could not load this language's word list. Showing English instead."

Each language's list is a separate file that loads when you pick it, so a dropped connection or a blocked file leaves the page on English. Check your connection, then choose the language again or reload the page. If English fails to load as well, no words can be shown.

The "Difficulty" menu is greyed out.

It is disabled when a "Word set" other than "Any" is chosen, because the set replaces the type and difficulty. Choose a word type button such as "Nouns" to go back to "Any". It is also disabled in every language except English, since only English has "Rare and poetic" words. Switch "Language" to English to use it.

My locked words came back unlocked, or a locked word vanished.

Locks belong to the current pool of words, so changing the language, type, word set, difficulty, first letter, length range or seed clears them. Lowering "How many" can also drop locked words that no longer fit in the shorter list. Lock the words again after you finish changing the settings. Pressing "New words" alone keeps them.

My classmate or a shared link shows different words.

Without a seed, every roll is random, so two people will not see the same list. Type the same text into "Seed (optional)" on both devices and keep every other option the same, including language, type, filters and "How many". Or use "Share result" so the link carries the seed of the list on screen. A link made while words are locked leaves the locked words out.

How it compares

A printed word list or a dictionary is better when you want definitions, spelling help or a very large vocabulary. This tool draws from short, hand-compiled everyday lists for each language, with roughly 100 to 430 everyday words per type in English, so it suits games, prompts and warm-ups more than vocabulary study. What it adds is speed and control: it picks without repeating, filters by letter and length, locks the ones you like, and can reproduce a list from a seed. It is not meant for passwords or anything that needs unpredictable randomness, because the seeds come from the browser's ordinary random number function.