9 Letter Word Generator

The 9 Letter Word Generator picks one to ten nine-letter English words at random from a list of about 1,300 common nouns, verbs and adjectives: condition, furniture, emergency, orchestra, privilege, lightning, threshold, democracy. You can narrow the draw by first letter, last letter and how many vowels the word contains, which is what you need when a crossword clue gives you the ends of a word or a game asks for a nine-letter word starting with S.

Filters

• Number of words: 1 to 10 per press. If fewer words match your filters, you get the ones that do; if none match, the page says so.
• Starts with / ends with: pick a letter for either end or leave both on Any.
• Number of vowels: counts a, e, i, o and u (not y). Most nine-letter words in the list have three or four vowels; only about 80 have two, and around 130 have five. Leave it blank to ignore vowels.

Filters combine, so "starts with c, ends with n, 4 vowels" gives you words like condition in one press. The list is drawn from everyday vocabulary rather than a full dictionary, so obscure Scrabble words are absent and you will not see plurals or verb forms padded out to nine letters.

What is in the word list

There are 1,356 nine-letter entries covering 1,312 distinct words (a few appear twice because they are both a noun and a verb, like interview). By part of speech it is roughly 640 adjectives, 450 nouns and 270 verbs. The most common first letters are c and s (about 145 words each), then p, i and a with just over 100 apiece; j, k, q and y have a handful between them, so a start-letter filter on those returns only a few words. A couple of dozen entries are capitalized proper nouns such as Wednesday and Christian; the start-letter filter is lowercase, so those only appear when the start letter is left on Any.

Where nine-letter words come up

• Countdown and word-wheel puzzles. The nine-letter word is the top score in Countdown's letters round and the target in newspaper word-wheel puzzles, where nine letters sit in a circle and you must use the center one. Generate a word, scramble it, and you have a puzzle.
• Scrabble and Words With Friends. A rack holds seven tiles, so a nine-letter play needs two letters already on the board. Practice by generating words and looking for the seven-tile subset you would need.
• Crosswords. Nine-letter answers are common in the long across slots. Filter by the first and last letter you already have.
• Hangman and classroom spelling. Nine letters is long enough to be hard and short enough to fit on a whiteboard. Vowel-count filters make good spelling drills ("all nine-letter words with only two vowels").
• Passphrases and usernames. Two random nine-letter words joined with a digit make a passphrase that is long and still typeable.

If nine is not the length you need, the same list and filters power the 8 Letter Word Generator, 7 Letter Word Generator, 6 Letter Word Generator and 5 Letter Word Generator, and you can browse all word & language generators for other languages and formats.