Word to draw
Draw a random noun - or switch to verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
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Press "Generate Word" to see a result here.
Part of speech
Press Generate and a word appears with its part of speech underneath. The same tool covers nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, so you can switch between them without leaving the page - useful when an exercise needs one of each.
The four filters map onto the parts of speech that most writing and grammar work turns on. Nouns name things, verbs carry the action, adjectives describe nouns and adverbs modify verbs. Choosing a filter before the draw means every word that comes up is usable straight away, rather than needing to be sorted first.
English lets the same word do different jobs. Bargain is a noun in one sentence and a verb in another, and words like that appear under both filters here. That is not a mistake in the list - it is a useful thing to point out when teaching, because it shows that part of speech depends on the sentence rather than the word alone.
Drawing words at random removes the quiet bias in hand-picked examples, where a teacher tends to reach for the same familiar words. Pull one noun, one verb and one adjective and you have an instant sentence-building prompt; pull twenty of one class and you have a sorting exercise.
Nouns split into things you can point at and things you cannot. Lantern, harbour and kettle are concrete; courage, freedom and silence are abstract. The distinction matters for writing rather than grammar: concrete nouns put a picture in a reader's head, abstract ones do not. A sentence about courage is vaguer than a sentence about a man refusing to move, and noticing which kind you have drawn is a useful writing exercise in itself.
Draw a noun, a verb, an adjective and an adverb, then write one sentence using all four. It sounds like a school exercise and it works on adults too, because the constraint forces sentence shapes you would not otherwise reach for. Doing it ten times in a row is a genuine warm-up before writing anything difficult.
Words do not carry a fixed part of speech - they take one from the job they are doing. "Bargain" is a noun in one sentence and a verb in another. "Light" can be a noun, a verb or an adjective. This is why a word can appear under two filters here, and why the useful question in a lesson is not what class a word is but what class it is in this sentence.
The list is filtered to the part of speech you chose, then a word is drawn using your browser's cryptographic random source with rejection sampling, so no word is favoured. Batches without repeats use a Fisher-Yates shuffle driven by the same source.
Leave the filter on Nouns and press Generate. One noun appears with its part of speech underneath.
Yes. The filter switches the pool to verbs, adjectives or adverbs, so the same tool covers all four parts of speech.
Yes. Raise the quantity and one press gives a whole list with no repeats, ready to copy.
Because English works that way. A word like bargain is listed under both, and the filter decides which role you get.
Yes. Drawing words by part of speech gives instant examples for sentence building, word sorting and parts-of-speech practice without preparing a worksheet.
Yes. Every word is drawn with your browser's cryptographic random source, so each word in the chosen part of speech has an equal chance.
A concrete noun names something you can perceive - a lantern, a harbour. An abstract noun names an idea or quality, like courage or silence. Both appear in this list.
Draw a noun, a verb, an adjective and an adverb, then write one sentence containing all four. Repeat ten times before starting anything difficult.