Draw up to 50 English words at a time from a hand-picked list of 630. Pick the part of speech, the length, or the first letter. Pin the words worth keeping, then redraw the rest.
Click a word to pin it
dotted underline marks an uncommon word
No repeats inside one draw.
Most people arrive with one task in mind. Pick the row closest to yours and press Use. The filters change and a fresh draw runs.
| Job | Settings | Pool | Apply |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pictionary or charades roundEvery everyday noun names a thing you hold, see, or eat. Nothing abstract like freedom or luck, which nobody draws inside a minute. | Nouns, everyday, 4 to 8 letters, 10 words | 152 | |
| Five-letter warm-upGood for guessing practice. The Wordle answer list holds about 2,300 words, so this pool is too thin to solve with. | Any part, both bands, exactly 5 letters, 20 words | 142 | |
| Story starterWrite one paragraph using all three. Uncommon words pull the scene away from the first idea you had. | Any part, uncommon, 3 words | 240 | |
| Spelling list for kidsShort, regular words. Lock the ones your class already knows and redraw to fill the gaps. | Any part, everyday, 3 to 6 letters, 10 words | 336 | |
| Vocabulary stretchLook up each one, then write one sentence per word before moving on. | Adjectives, uncommon, 5 words | 60 | |
| Long labels for a UI testReal words show where a button or table cell breaks. Copy JSON and drop the array into a fixture. | Any part, 10 to 15 letters, 30 words | 25 |
Every word went on the list by hand, sorted into one of two bands.
Each word lives under one part of speech, its most frequent use. "Run" is a verb here and never a noun. "Orange" is a noun and never a color word. This keeps the noun filter free of words people read as actions.
First letters run uneven, as they do in English. S opens 94 words. X opens none, so the Starts with filter returns an empty board for that letter.
| Part | Everyday | Uncommon | Shortest | Longest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nouns | 160 | 80 | cup |
cartographer |
| Verbs | 100 | 70 | ask |
gallivant |
| Adjectives | 90 | 60 | dry |
effervescent |
| Adverbs | 40 | 30 | idly |
inadvertently |
Edward de Bono called this the random entry technique in his books on lateral thinking. You pick a word with no link to your problem, then force a link. The word works because your brain refuses to leave two ideas unconnected.
Problem: a corner bakery sells out by noon on weekends, then sits empty on weekday evenings. Draw one noun. Say the draw gives lantern.
Nouns work best for this. Verbs come second. Adjectives and adverbs give too little to list.
630 English words: 240 nouns, 170 verbs, 150 adjectives, and 70 adverbs. Each part splits into an everyday band and an uncommon band.
No. Each draw picks without repeats, and pinned words sit outside the draw, so a new word never duplicates one you kept. Across separate draws, repeats are normal.
A click on any word adds a pin. The next press of Generate keeps every pinned word in place and fills only the unpinned slots. Unpin all clears every pin at once.
No word in the list starts with X. English has few X words outside science terms, and none fit the everyday or uncommon bands. U and Y have only a handful each.
No. Each word sits under its most frequent use only. "Run" is a verb, "orange" is a noun, "kind" is an adjective. A word never appears under two parts of speech.
Set both length boxes to 5, or press Use on the five-letter warm-up row in the table above. The pool holds 142 of them.
