Free random letter generator

Random letter generator for games and classrooms

Press the button and this random letter generator hands you a letter from A to Z — one at poster size for a game round, or up to 100 at once for a worksheet. Draw from the whole alphabet, from vowels or consonants alone, or from a stretch such as D to M, with repeats allowed or ruled out. Using it costs nothing and asks for no account, and you can switch between even odds and English letter frequency, where E turns up 12.70% of the time and Z only 0.07%.

100% free
No signup
1 to 100 letters
Vowels or consonants only
English-frequency mode

Drawing from 26 letters

Every letter equally likely

Press the button for a letter.

How many letters

Which letters

Chances

Let the same letter come up twiceCount Y as a vowel

How to draw a random letter

Three steps: how many, which pot, what odds.

Choose how many letters and which ones
Leave the count on 1 for a single oversized letter — the setting for a round of Scattergories or picking a category — or raise it as far as 100 for a worksheet. The second dropdown decides the pot the letters come out of: the whole alphabet, vowels only, consonants only, or a stretch such as D through M for a class working through the first half of the alphabet.
Decide how the odds should work
Even chances give every letter in the pot the same 1-in-26 shot, which is what you want when the draw has to be fair. English frequency instead follows how often each letter really turns up in written English, so E arrives about 12.70% of the time and Z about 0.07%. Two tick boxes finish the setup: whether the same letter may come round twice, and whether Y counts as a vowel or a consonant.
Draw, read and hand out
A single letter is shown big enough to read across a classroom, with its share of English text underneath it; several letters arrive as tiles you can count at a glance. ABC and abc switch the case, and the copy buttons give you either a spaced-out row for a whiteboard or one unbroken string for a puzzle grid.

Technical specifications

Letters available	The 26 letters A to Z — no accents, digits, punctuation or other alphabets
Pots you can draw from	Whole alphabet (26), vowels only (5, or 6 with Y), consonants only (21, or 20 with Y), or any stretch such as D–M
Letters per draw	1 to 100 with repeats allowed; with repeats off the draw stops at the size of the pot, so 26 at most
Frequency table	Lewand's shares of English text: E 12.702%, T 9.056%, A 8.167% down to Q 0.095% and Z 0.074%
Randomness	crypto.getRandomValues for even draws; weighted draws walk a cumulative total, removing each letter as it is taken
Output	Uppercase or lowercase, copied either spaced apart or as one unbroken string
Speed	A 100-letter draw is built and on screen in under a millisecond, with no request to any server
Price	Free, no signup, unlimited draws

Frequently asked questions

How do I get just one random letter?

Set the count to 1 and press the button — the letter fills the panel, large enough to be read from the back of a room. Each press draws again from scratch, with no memory of what came before, so pressing it five times is not the same as asking for five letters: the five presses can repeat, and a five-letter draw with repeats switched off cannot.

What does the English frequency setting actually change?

It replaces the flat 3.85% chance every letter has under even odds with each letter's real share of English text, which spreads from E at 12.702% down to Z at 0.074% — a ratio of about 172 to 1. Pick it when the draw should feel like language: cryptogram practice, hangman drills, a spelling game where a Q every third turn would be absurd. Pick even odds whenever the letter decides something real, such as which team starts, because weighting quietly favors the people whose names begin with common letters.

Is Y treated as a vowel?

As a consonant by default, with a tick box to move it. English uses Y both ways — a consonant in yellow and yesterday, a vowel in myth, gym and happy — so no single answer is right for every classroom. Moving it changes both pots at once: vowels go from 5 letters to 6, consonants from 21 to 20, and any draw already on screen is redrawn under the new rule.

Can I get the alphabet in a random order?

Set the count to 26, keep the whole alphabet selected and untick the repeats box — you get all 26 letters, each exactly once, in an order no two draws are likely to share. That is a genuine shuffle rather than 26 separate picks: the tool takes letters out of the bag as it goes, which is why the last letter is whatever is left rather than another chance for E.

Why do the same letters keep coming up twice?

Because repeats are far likelier than intuition suggests: ask for ten letters from the 26 with repeats allowed and there is an 86% chance that at least two of them match. This is the same arithmetic behind the birthday problem, and it catches people out every time a bingo card or a name-that-thing round comes out looking rigged. Untick the repeats box and the draw is guaranteed clean, up to the 26 letters that exist.

Does it include accented letters, digits or other alphabets?

No — the pot is the 26 letters of the English alphabet and nothing else. There are no accented forms, no digits, no punctuation and no Greek or Cyrillic characters, because every use this page is built for (alphabet games, spelling practice, seating draws, assigning a letter to each pupil) works inside those 26. If you need to count how many letters are in a piece of text rather than generate them, that is a different job.

Can I use it to assign people or tasks fairly?

Yes, with even odds and repeats switched off, which turns the draw into pulling tiles from a bag. Each letter can come out only once, so twelve pupils drawing from A to L each end up with a different letter and no one gets a second turn at the pot. Keep frequency weighting off for anything like this — it is a model of English, not a fair coin.

Even odds, English odds, and the difference between them

An alphabet looks like the fairest thing in the world — 26 symbols, one chance each — and for a draw that decides something, that is exactly what you want: a flat 3.85% per letter, no history, no drift. Written English is nothing like that. The six commonest letters — E, T, A, O, I and N — account for just over half of everything printed, while J, Q, X and Z together barely clear half a per cent. Any game that pretends otherwise gets strange fast: a Scattergories round is unplayable on Q, and a hangman drill that deals Z as often as E teaches a beginner precisely the wrong instinct about which letters to guess first.

That is why the odds are a setting rather than a decision made for you. The frequency table this page uses is the standard one from Robert Lewand's Cryptological Mathematics, counted over ordinary English prose and reproduced in most cryptanalysis courses; it is the same table that lets a solver crack a substitution cipher by assuming the commonest symbol is E. Turn it on when you want draws that behave like language, and leave it off for anything with a winner. Teachers tend to want both in one lesson: even odds to hand every child a different letter, frequency odds to show why the vowel wall in a word game is so hard to break through.

The repeats setting is the other half of the story, and it is the one people misjudge. Allowing repeats means every draw is independent, which is right for dice-like play and wrong for a class list; forbidding them turns the alphabet into a bag of tiles that empties as you draw, so a 26-letter run gives you a genuine shuffle and a 30-letter request politely stops at 26. If the thing you want shuffled is your own list of names rather than the alphabet, the list randomizer takes it whole; and if you are counting letters in text you already have rather than drawing new ones, the letter counter breaks a passage down letter by letter.

Where the draw happens

Inside your own browser. The alphabet and the frequency table are a few hundred bytes of the page itself, the randomness comes from your device, and pressing the button sends nothing to anybody — no counter of how many draws you made, no record of which letters came out. Reload and the tool starts blank, because there was never anything kept to bring back.