Random letter generator
Pull letters at random, either evenly across the alphabet or weighted the way a real Scrabble bag is. The second option is the interesting one: it gives you racks with a believable number of vowels instead of the Q-and-J nonsense an even draw produces.
An even draw is not a realistic draw
If every letter is equally likely, a seven-letter draw contains a Q about a quarter of the time and often has only one vowel. Nothing like that comes out of a real bag, where E alone is twelve of the hundred tiles and forty-two of them are vowels.
So if you are practising Scrabble racks, generating boards for a class, or testing how a solver behaves, the weighted draw is the one that reflects the game. The even draw is better when you want genuinely arbitrary letters, for a naming exercise or a random seed.
Twelve of the hundred tiles are E. One is Q. An even draw treats those as the same thing.
Common uses
- Seven letters, bag-weighted to practise reading a Scrabble rack.
- Sixteen letters to make a board for Boggle.
- Consonants only for phonics work on blends and clusters.
- Single letters for picking teams, ordering turns or choosing a category.
Want words instead?
The random word generator draws whole words from the everyday-vocabulary list, which is what you want for charades, spelling practice or writing prompts.
About random letters
What does "drawn from a Scrabble bag" mean?
That each letter appears in the pool as often as it does in a real hundred-tile set. Twelve Es, nine As and nine Is, one Q and one Z. Draw seven from that and you get a rack that feels like a real one, with a believable number of vowels.
Choose the whole alphabet instead and every letter is equally likely, which produces racks stuffed with Js and Qs that would never come out of a real bag. Both are useful; they are just useful for different things.
Can I get letters that definitely make a word?
Not from this page, because it draws letters rather than words. If you want a set that is guaranteed to be solvable, take a word from the random word generator and shuffle it with the scramble maker. That gives you random-looking letters with a known answer.
Every set generated here does link straight through to the unscrambler, so you can see what it makes.
Why would I want consonants or vowels only?
Teaching, mostly. Vowel-only draws are useful for phonics work, and consonant-only draws for practising blends and clusters. They also make a decent puzzle: give somebody five consonants and ask them to add vowels to make a word.
Is this actually random?
It uses the browser's random number generator, which is fine for games, puzzles and teaching. It is not cryptographically secure, so do not build a password out of it.