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Random Word Generator

Tap Generate for a new word. Open More options to narrow by type, letters or length.

Words

Type

What this does

This is a random word generator. Each tap picks words from a list of everyday English words, from common nouns like harbour to verbs like stumble and adjectives like brittle. Ask for one word or up to a hundred at a time.

Ways people use it

Party games: Charades, Pictionary and Taboo all need a fresh word every round. Set the type to Nouns and tap.
Writing prompts: Generate three words and write a paragraph that uses all of them. It is a quick way to get past a blank page.
Spelling and vocabulary: Use Word size to keep words to five letters or fewer for younger learners, or go above nine for a challenge.
Passphrases and names: Pick several unrelated words for a memorable passphrase, or use a single word as a starting point for a project name.

Questions

How are the words chosen?

Each word is drawn at random from a list of common English words. Words that are offensive or very rare are left out of the list, so what you see is suitable for most settings.

How do I get only nouns, verbs or adjectives?

Use the Type buttons under the Generate button. Each word in the list is tagged with the parts of speech it can be, so a word like light can show up under more than one type.

Can I choose the first letter, last letter or length?

Yes. Tap More options. You can set a first letter, a last letter, and a word size measured in letters or syllables. If nothing matches, loosen one of the options.

Will I ever see the same word twice?

It can happen, as it would with any random pick from a fixed list. With a list this size, repeats are uncommon in a short session.

Is the list in English only?

For now, yes. The list is British and American English together.

Missing a word?

Tips and Onboarding

The idea

You save a secret word and a position. Spectators generate ordinary-looking random words on their own phone. Every word they stop at has one letter of your secret word in that position. Stop five times and the five words spell your word. You log in with a few quick taps and choose the position. After that the spectator does everything.

1. First visit (once only)

On any phone, go to randomwordgenerator.co.uk and scroll to Missing a word?
Type the activation code from your email into the box and tap Send.
You are greeted by name. Choose your own 4-digit PIN. Settings opens.

The activation code works once. After that you use your 4-digit user ID and your PIN.

2. Logging in on any phone

Tap Generate three times within 2 seconds.
Pause for about a second.
Tap your user ID: each digit is that many quick taps, with a pause of about a second between digits. Ten taps is a zero. You have 60 seconds.

There is no sign on the page that anything has happened, and Generate carries on as normal. Rehearse in Settings under Practice your login.

3. Opening Settings

Press and hold Cookie preferences in the footer for about a second.
In the Consent reference box type your user ID then your PIN, for example 32121234.
Tap Save preferences. Settings opens. If you are already logged in by tapping, just type the PIN.

4. Settings, simply

Active Account: On: your tap code works. Off: tapping your code does nothing. Leave it Off when you are not performing.
Force: On / Off: On: your Word and Position load the moment you log in. Off: logging in does nothing special.
Word: The word you want to reveal, one letter per spectator stop. Example: FORCE.
Position: Which letter of each word carries your letter. 3: every word has your letter third. 0: you choose the position live, on a grid, after logging in. Example: spectator rolls a die and gets 4, you tap block 4.
Pause before the next letter: 3 to 10 seconds, default 5. How long it must be since the last word before the next Generate moves on to the next letter. Raise it if spectators write quickly. Example: 8.
Default position: Used when you type a word into the suggestion box without a number. Example: 3, so david acts like david 3.
Force full word: On: the whole word is forced instead of letters. The spectator generates as often as they like. After they stop for your pause time, the word shows on the generate number you set (1 is the very next one). Add a word after it if you want one to show on the tap straight after, in case they tap once too often.
Show my cue in the footer line: On: while you are armed, the small line at the bottom shows what is being forced, like 4.F (position 4, letter F). Off: the line stays blank.
Scroll up to the generator after entering a word: On: after you type a word into the suggestion box the page jumps back up to the generator.
Quick slots: Up to 8 extra words with their own positions, for changing the force without opening Settings. Example: slot 2 is MAGIC, position 3.

Tap Save after any change.

5. A performance: spelling FORCE

Before: in Settings set Force On, Word FORCE, Position 0, Active Account On, then Save.

Patter: "Imagine rolling a die. What number does it land on? 4? Great, I want to try something with you."
The spectator opens the site on their own phone. "Look, we can generate words, and you see they are all different." They tap Generate a few times.
While you talk, log in (section 2). The whole screen becomes a 3 by 3 grid.
Tap the block for their number, here 4. The grid disappears and the page looks normal again.
They tap Generate until they want to stop, and write that word on a billet. The writing takes the five seconds.
They carry on generating, stop when they like, and write that word. They do this five times in total.
Reveal: read the 4th letter of each word, in order. They spell FORCE.

Grid with position 4 chosen. Hold block 1 to cancel.

Stop	Example word	4th letter
1	perfect	F
2	school	O
3	story	R
4	kitchen	C
5	money	E

After the fifth letter the generator goes back to normal.

Keep it clean:

The spectator must leave at least the pause time (5 seconds by default) after the word they stop at before generating again. That gap is what moves you on to the next letter. If they restart too quickly the next word has the same letter again, so raise Pause before the next letter in Settings.
Keep the Words box on 1. Several words at once are always plain random words.
If the cue line flashes a dash, the spectator's filters left no word that fits, so that one word was left plain. Ignore it.

More: no-code pairing, pushing words, slots, reset

Auto-pair (no tap code). On your own phone open randomwordgenerator.co.uk/your 4-digit user ID (for example /3212) in Safari, sign in with your PIN, then Share, Add to Home Screen. It opens on plain black or on your own screenshot (Settings, Launch screen). Double tap the top half to start listening for the spectator's phone and allow the microphone the first time. When a spectator taps Generate their phone plays a short chirp that yours hears, and when they triple tap Generate it is loaded with your word and position. A dot shows in each bottom corner of your screen and your phone flashes green. On their phone the first dot in the address at the top becomes a comma (randomwordgenerator,co.uk) while it looks for you. After 8 seconds it becomes a space (randomwordgenerator co.uk), which means no pair: log in by tapping instead. The address returns to normal once you are in. Active Account must be On.

Start the force with a double tap. In Settings, turn this on and a paired phone behaves normally until you double tap the top half of your Home Screen app. That phone's next Generate then starts the force. Off: the force starts the moment a phone pairs.

Position 0 later. If the position is chosen live and you need the grid again, hold the empty strip just above the What this does heading for a second.

Visible grid. In Settings, tick Show the grid lines to see black lines on the grid while it is open. Untick for an invisible grid.

Secret confirmation. When you tap a block for the position, the w in the logo changes to that number. It goes back to w the next time you press Generate.

Quick slots. While logged in, open the grid (hold the strip above What this does) and hold block 2 to 9 to load the slot with that number. Tap block 1 three times to close the grid.

Push a word. In Settings or on your Home Screen app, type a word and position under Push a word and tap Push. Every phone logged in with your code or paired to you picks it up within seconds. Clear on phones returns them to normal. Saving Settings replaces a push.

Suggestion box. At the bottom of the page. When you are logged in, any word typed there is your input and uses the default position, or add a number like david 3. On a phone that is not logged in david 3 still works for that page, and a plain word is just a suggestion.

Reset. Tap the logo three times quickly to clear everything.