RandomWord
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RandomWord
Details and Options

- The following types are supported:
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"CommonWords" common words in their base forms (default) "KnownWords" known dictionary words in their base forms pos common words that can be a given part of speech {"type",pos} inflected, known, etc. words filtered by part of speech "Stopwords" words like "the" that are often considered insignificant - Parts of speech can be given as "GrammaticalUnit" entities or as strings.
- Core parts of speech are "Noun", "Verb", "Adjective", "Adverb", "Preposition", "Conjunction", "Pronoun", "Determiner", and "Interjection".
- RandomWord selects from words available in WordList.
- RandomWord supports the following options:
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IncludeInflections False whether to include inflected forms of words Language $Language what language to use
Examples
open allclose allBasic Examples (4)Summary of the most common use cases
Options (2)Common values & functionality for each option
Language (1)
Get a list of random Spanish words:

https://wolfram.com/xid/0cg48heh2-m1lvog

Language specifications can be strings or "Language" entities:

https://wolfram.com/xid/0cg48heh2-lktvso

IncludeInflections (1)
With IncludeInflections->True, inflected forms can also be included in results:

https://wolfram.com/xid/0cg48heh2-bi2j0d

With IncludeInflections->False, only uninflected words are returned:

https://wolfram.com/xid/0cg48heh2-m80bse

Properties & Relations (2)Properties of the function, and connections to other functions
Use SeedRandom to get repeatable random values:

https://wolfram.com/xid/0cg48heh2-2146lx


https://wolfram.com/xid/0cg48heh2-6edxa7

Use BlockRandom to block one use of RandomWord from affecting others:

https://wolfram.com/xid/0cg48heh2-kpt

Wolfram Research (2015), RandomWord, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RandomWord.html.
Text
Wolfram Research (2015), RandomWord, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RandomWord.html.
Wolfram Research (2015), RandomWord, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RandomWord.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2015. "RandomWord." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RandomWord.html.
Wolfram Language. 2015. "RandomWord." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RandomWord.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2015). RandomWord. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RandomWord.html
Wolfram Language. (2015). RandomWord. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RandomWord.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_randomword, author="Wolfram Research", title="{RandomWord}", year="2015", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RandomWord.html}", note=[Accessed: 16-May-2025
]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_randomword, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={RandomWord}, year={2015}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RandomWord.html}, note=[Accessed: 16-May-2025
]}