Word Scrambler

Scramble a random English word into a puzzle -- or type your own word or phrase to scramble -- with the answer hidden behind a tap.

About this generator

Two tools in one: press Generate with the input empty and it draws a random English word and scrambles its letters into a puzzle, with the answer hidden behind a reveal. Or type your own word or phrase and it scrambles that instead -- each word's letters are shuffled in place, so a phrase stays recognizably phrase-shaped.

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.

What people use it for

Teachers use scrambled words as warm-ups, spelling practice, and vocabulary quizzes; party hosts as icebreaker rounds; puzzle writers as raw material. The random mode is also a solo brain-teaser -- generate, guess, tap to check yourself.

How it works

The random mode draws from the site's word list with cryptographically secure randomness, then shuffles the word's letters with an unbiased Fisher-Yates shuffle, re-shuffling if the result happens to spell the word unchanged. Your own text is scrambled the same way, word by word, keeping spaces and punctuation where they are. The answer sits behind a Show-answer button and re-hides on every new scramble.

What's inside

A sample of what this generator can draw, spread evenly across the full list:

Common questions

Can I scramble my own words?

Yes -- type any word or phrase into the box and Generate scrambles it. Each word's letters are shuffled within that word, so "apple pie" becomes something like "pelpa iep", not one merged jumble.

Where do the random words come from?

From the site's own list of 1010 common English words -- the same list the Random Word generator draws from -- so puzzles are everyday words, not obscure dictionary entries.

Can the scramble accidentally spell the original word?

It re-shuffles until the result differs from the original. Only words whose letters are all identical (like "aa") can't be changed by shuffling.

How do I see the answer?

Tap "Show answer" under the scrambled word -- it stays hidden until then and re-hides on every new scramble, so you can hand the screen around without spoiling it. Recent scrambles work the same way: tap a chip to see its answer.

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