Random word generator for writers, teachers and games

3,649 — 1,333 nouns, 830 verbs, 1,019 adjectives and 467 adverbs, every one of them read through by a human before it went in. That is deliberately far smaller than a dictionary: a scrape of Webster's gives you 235,000 entries, most of them words nobody has said out loud this century, and a generator built on one hands you abaculus when you wanted apple. Each entry also carries a syllable count and a commonness tier, which is what makes the filters on this page possible at all.

Every entry carries exactly one part of speech, the one the word is used as most often, so brush is filed as a noun and watch as a verb. English lets a very large share of its vocabulary work as both, and tagging each word twice would double the list and quietly skew the odds — ask for a random noun and you would keep getting verbs that also happen to be nouns. If a word you expect is missing from one filter, try it in the other.

By rule, with a hand-written exception table of 270 words for the cases the rules get wrong. The rules handle the silent final e (cake is one syllable, not two), the syllabic -le of table and candle, the silent -ed of damaged, and suffixes such as -ly, -ment, -ful and -less, which are peeled off before the vowel groups are counted. Words that defy all of that — coyote, business, meringue, ukulele — are listed individually, which is why filtering for two-syllable words does not hand you every word that merely looks like one.

Everyday means a word a competent nine-year-old reader already owns: 853 entries, mostly concrete nouns and plain verbs, and the right setting for spelling practice, charades and drawing games. Intermediate covers the 1,473 words an adult uses without thinking but a child might still be meeting — casserole, negotiate, plausible. Advanced holds 1,323 literary and academic words such as ephemeral, dichotomy and surreptitious, which is the tier to pick for vocabulary revision and the one to avoid for a family game night.

Yes — there is no profanity, no slur, no proper noun and nothing about violence, drugs or sex anywhere in it. Every word is lowercase, spelled in American English, and free of hyphens, spaces and apostrophes, so nothing arrives that a worksheet or a spelling test would have to be edited around. The strongest words in the whole file are ordeal and adversity.

Your filters left fewer than twenty words to draw from, and repeats are switched off by default. The counter above the words shows the size of the surviving pool at all times: ask for one-syllable advanced adverbs and the honest answer is that almost none exist. Either loosen a filter or tick the repeats box, which lets the same word come round again and fills the count exactly.

The draw uses crypto.getRandomValues, the browser's cryptographic random source, rather than Math.random, and the remainder of the 32-bit range is rejected so that no word is even fractionally likelier than another. There is no seed box and no history, so a set you liked cannot be recreated — copy it before you press the button again. Nothing you draw is recorded anywhere, which is also why the same set never comes back by accident.