Random Letter Generator
Draw a random letter from the English alphabet — set the case, narrow it to vowels or consonants, and switch letters off you don't want.
26 letters on the wheel.
Each letter leaves the wheel once it has been drawn, until you restore it.
26 active entries · Click the center to spin
Press Space to spin · Enter to spin · Esc to close winner dialog
How to use it
The wheel starts loaded with A–Z. Every control above rewrites the letters on the wheel straight away, so what you see is exactly what can be drawn. Pick lowercase if you are working with young children who have not met capitals yet, or mixed case when you want both forms of each letter in the draw — that puts 52 slices on the wheel, upper and lower for every letter. The vowels only and consonants only filters are there for phonics work and word games where a random consonant is the whole point.
The A–Z grid switches individual letters on and off. Turning off Q, X and Z makes a word-starting game far less frustrating; turning off everything except a handful of letters turns the wheel into a quick multiple-choice picker. Switch on no-repeat drawing and each letter leaves the wheel after it is drawn, so a class can work through the whole alphabet exactly once — the winner history panel lists what has gone and restores any letter in one click.
What people use it for
Word games. Scattergories, Stop the Bus, categories and alphabet challenges all need a letter nobody chose. Spinning it in front of the group settles the "you picked an easy one" argument before it starts.
Phonics and spelling lessons. Draw a random consonant for a sound of the day, or a random vowel to build word families. Run it on the projector next to the classroom wheel to pick both a letter and the student who answers.
Writing and drawing prompts. A random letter is a surprisingly good constraint: name a character, a place or an object beginning with it, and the blank page problem disappears.
Sampling and assignment. Label groups, seats, teams or test cases A, B, C and draw one without anyone suspecting a pattern. If you need digits rather than letters, the number wheel does the same job with numbers.
How random is it?
Each draw comes from your browser's cryptographic random number generator —crypto.getRandomValues— with rejection sampling so no letter is even slightly favoured by rounding. With all 26 letters on the wheel, each has the same 1-in-26 chance on every spin. Nothing you type leaves your device, and the whole tool keeps working offline once the page has loaded.
Frequently asked questions
Leave the defaults as they are and click the centre of the wheel. It spins through all 26 uppercase letters and stops on one, chosen with your browser's cryptographic randomness.
Yes. Choose a–z lowercase for lowercase only, or Mixed case to put both the uppercase and lowercase form of every letter on the wheel.
Yes. Which letters has Vowels only (A, E, I, O, U) and Consonants only filters, and you can still switch off individual letters on top of that.
Turn on no-repeat drawing. Each drawn letter is removed from the wheel until the alphabet is used up, and the winner history panel lets you restore any letter you want back in.
Yes. Click those letters in the A–Z grid to switch them off. Excluded letters are shown struck through and Reset all brings the full alphabet back.
Every spin uses crypto.getRandomValues with rejection sampling, the same random source browsers use for security keys, so each letter on the wheel is equally likely. The fairness simulator on the home page lets you run thousands of virtual draws and see the distribution.