Random Letter Generator

What a fair letter draw means

Every letter should be as likely as every other. The obvious implementation — take a random number and wrap it with a remainder — quietly favours the letters at the start of the alphabet, because 26 doesn't divide evenly into the range the machine produces. This generator discards the small tail of values that would cause the skew and draws again, so A is no more likely than Z.

The same applies to the vowel and consonant modes: the draw is made over whichever pool you've chosen, not filtered out of a full-alphabet draw.

Vowels, consonants, and where Y sits

Y is treated as a consonant. It behaves as a vowel in words like rhythm, but classroom phonics and word games almost always classify it the other way, so that's the convention here. If you need Y in the vowel pool, draw from A–Z instead.

What people use this for

• Word games — a starting letter for Scattergories, Categories or Boggle-style rounds, where picking one yourself always feels loaded.
• Phonics and spelling practice — drawing a letter to sound out, or a vowel to slot into a word family.
• Naming and brainstorming — a constraint to work against when a blank page isn't producing anything.
• Assigning turns — draw letters instead of numbers when people already have initials to match against.

Nothing you generate is transmitted or stored. Reloading the page clears it.