Pick a random letter of the alphabet, A to Z. Filter to just vowels or consonants, generate several at once, for games, drawing prompts, or naming things.
An alphabet is a writing system where symbols stand for individual sounds rather than syllables or whole words, and nearly every one in use descends from a single ancestor. That ancestor is the Proto-Sinaitic script of around 1800 BCE, whose letters began as simplified Egyptian hieroglyphs -- A started as an ox head, drawn upside down to the modern eye. It passed to the Phoenicians, then to the Greeks, who added vowels, and on to the Etruscans and Romans, whose version became the Latin alphabet. The order has stayed remarkably stable for over 3,000 years, which is why abecedaries from the Bronze Age are still recognisable.
This generator draws a random letter of the English alphabet -- all 26, filterable to just vowels or just consonants -- for games, drills, and decisions that need one letter with no arguments.
Every result here is drawn using crypto.getRandomValues() -- the Web Crypto API's cryptographically secure randomness -- instead of Math.random(), so it's genuinely unpredictable, not just statistically random. Learn more.
Families use it for categories games like Scattergories where every round needs a fresh letter. Teachers use it for phonics and alphabet practice, improv groups use it for prompt constraints, and parents use it for I-spy and name games on car rides.
Generate draws one letter using the site's cryptographically secure randomness, guaranteed not to repeat whatever letter is currently showing in single-result mode. The Type filter restricts the draw to vowels or consonants, and raising the amount deals several letters at once.
A sample of what this generator can draw, spread evenly across the full list:
Y is classed as a consonant in the filter, following the convention for its most common role -- though English being English, it moonlights as a vowel constantly.
Yes -- raise the amount to deal a hand of letters in one press, and each draw within a multi-letter deal can repeat, like real tiles.
Yes -- each draw is uniform across the 26 letters (or the filtered set), with no weighting toward common letters.