How the letter generator works
Choose how many letters you want, from 1 to 10, then press Generate. Each letter is drawn with the secure random numbers built into your browser, and the tiles settle one after another as the letters are fixed. Pick uppercase or lowercase, and draw from all letters, vowels only, or consonants only. Y counts as a consonant here.
To draw from your own letters, choose Custom and type them in. Only the letters A to Z are used, and a letter typed twice counts once. With No repeats switched on, letters come out of a shuffled set and none comes up again until every letter in the set has been drawn, after which the set starts over. Without it, every draw is independent, so the same letter can appear twice in a row. The last draws are listed under the tiles.
Questions
Is each letter equally likely?
Yes. Each letter in the chosen set has the same chance on every draw. Letters are not weighted by how common they are in English.
What does no repeats do?
It draws from a shuffled copy of the set and takes out each letter as it is used. A letter can come up again only after every letter in the set has been drawn.
Which letters can I use in a custom set?
The letters A to Z. Other characters you type are ignored, and a letter typed twice counts once.
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