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Random Letter Generator

Step 1 / 4 Random letters

Pick random letters from the English alphabet. Choose uppercase, lowercase or mixed case, decide whether repeats are allowed, and generate as many as you need. Useful for Scrabble-like games, icebreakers (“name a country starting with R…”), classroom exercises and random seed strings.

How to generate random letters

  1. 1

    Pick the alphabet

    Latin A-Z only (default), or include accented Latin characters, or Greek letters.

  2. 2

    Choose case

    Uppercase, lowercase or mixed.

  3. 3

    Set repetition

    Allow duplicates (each letter independent) or force unique (26 max for English).

  4. 4

    Generate

    Copy the result as a comma-separated list or a compact string.

Letter frequency in English

A truly uniform draw gives each letter a 1/26 chance. That is not how English text works — e, t, a, o, i, n are far more common than j, q, x, z.

Most common Frequency Least common Frequency
e 12.7% z 0.07%
t 9.1% q 0.10%
a 8.2% j 0.15%
o 7.5% x 0.15%

The generator samples uniformly by default. Toggle “English-frequency weighted” to mimic natural letter distribution — useful for testing crossword-style games.

Common uses

Frequently Asked Questions

The generator treats letters as letters, not phonemes. It does not label any of them as vowel or consonant; that is a linguistic distinction that varies by context.

Yes — toggle the accented-Latin option and letters like a-grave, e-acute, i-circumflex, o-umlaut, u-diaeresis and n-tilde are added to the pool. Useful for teaching Spanish or French spelling.

26 letters for English. For mixed case without case-folding, 52. Anything beyond exhausts the pool.

Yes — the browser’s Web Crypto RNG is uniform over the selected alphabet. Fisher-Yates shuffle is used when drawing without replacement.