random-word-generator

A Deno CLI which returns a string of random words from a given word list.

> deno run --lock --allow-read=./words ./main.ts
> cheeking-signs-riches

Similar to unique-names-generator.

Code repository mirrors: GitHub, Codeberg, git.ardis.lu

Flags

• --words: path to a word list file where each word is delimited by a newline. Default value is ./words/xkcd.txt.
• --separator: a character to insert in between each word in the output. If multiple characters are provided, a random character is picked for each separator. Default value is -.
• --length: the number of words to output. Default value is 3.

Included word lists

• xkcd.txt: the dictionary for XKCD's Simple Writer, Up Goer Five, and Thing Explainer, minus contractions.
• google-10000.txt: the top 10,000 most common English words from Google's Trillion Word Corpus, minus swear words.
• left-hand-only.txt: the subset of google-10000.txt which only contains the words which can be typed using only the left hand on a QWERTY keyboard.
• gfycat.txt: the adjectives and animal names that gfycat uses to generate URLs.
• bip39.txt: the word list used to make BIP39 mnemonic phrases for generating Bitcoin wallets.
• eff-large-wordlist.txt: the five-dice word list used for EFF's dice-generated passphrases.

Word list sources

• XKCD Simple Writer Word List
• first20hours/google-10000-english
• gfycat adjectives and gfycat animals
• BIP39 English word list
• EFF Dice-Generated Passphrases