Random Letter Generator

How to generate a random letter

1. Choose the letters. Under Letters, keep All A–Z or pick Vowels or Consonants, and narrow the Range with From and To if you only want, say, A to G. The Presets row sets common choices in one tap.
2. Leave out what you don’t want. Type letters into Exclude letters, such as Q X Z. Tick Count Y as a vowel if your game treats Y that way.
3. Set the case and the amount. Choose UPPER, lower or Mixed under Case, and how many letters you need under How many.
4. Press Generate (or the Space bar). The letter drops into place in large type; several letters appear as a row of tiles.
5. Use it. Copy puts the letters on your clipboard, and Recent letters shows the last 50 letters on this device. For a game of several rounds, tick Skip letters already drawn.

Ways to use random letters

• Category word games: draw a letter, then everyone writes an animal, a city and a food that start with it before the timer runs out. Leave out Q, X and Z so every round is playable.
• Naming challenges: a team picks a project code name, a band name or a mascot that starts with the drawn letter.
• Improv warm-ups: each line of a scene has to start with the next random letter, which keeps a group of adults on their toes.
• Icebreaker initials: draw two letters and ask people for a hobby, a place or a favorite food with those initials.
• Quick tie-breaks: whoever’s name is closest to the drawn letter goes first.

Need whole words instead? The random word generator can pick words that start with a given letter.

Options explained

• Letters — All A–Z, Vowels (A, E, I, O, U) or Consonants (the other 21).
• Range — From and To keep only the letters in between, such as A to G.
• Count Y as a vowel — off by default, so Y is a consonant. When on, Vowels has 6 letters and Consonants 20.
• Exclude letters — any letters you type are removed from the pool; separators and digits are ignored.
• Case — UPPER for capitals, lower for small letters, Mixed for a 50/50 chance of each per letter.
• How many and No repeats — up to 100 letters per press; with No repeats, a letter appears at most once per batch.
• Skip letters already drawn — each drawn letter stays out until you press Reset letters, and the line under the letter shows how many are left.
• Presets — A–Z, Vowels, Consonants and Word game (no Q, X, Z). Letter wheel opens the letters in the wheel spinner.

How the random letter picker works

When you press Generate, your browser’s secure random generator (crypto.getRandomValues) picks the letters first, using rejection sampling so no letter gets a rounding advantage. Every letter in the pool has exactly the same chance: 1 in 26 for the full alphabet, 1 in 5 for vowels. That makes it fair for any game: nobody, not even the person at the keyboard, can steer which letter comes up. With No repeats, letters are drawn like slips from a hat that aren’t put back. The short animation shows a decorative letter for a moment and always lands on the letters chosen before it started. If your device asks for reduced motion, the letters appear at once.

Tips for word games

Most letter-category games play best without Q, X and Z, so start with the Word game preset. For short rounds with beginners, try Vowels, which make many words easy to find; for a harder round, use Consonants and exclude J, K and V too. Repeats come sooner than people expect: in a 10-round game with all 26 letters, the chance that some letter comes up twice is about 86%, so tick Skip letters already drawn. On a shared screen, press Present (or F) to show the letter large enough for the whole room.