Memorable Password Generator

The Memorable Password Generator builds a password from four plain English words and a number: two adjectives, an animal, a verb and a number from 0 to 999, run together with no spaces, for example bravecalmfoxleap482 or swiftwiseowldash7. Press the button and one appears with a copy button beside it. The result is easy to say out loud, easy to type on a phone and far easier to remember than x7#Qp!2v, at the cost of being weaker than a long random string. This page is for the accounts where you have to type the password yourself, not the ones a password manager fills in.

How the passwords are built

The word part comes from a fixed list of 10,000 combinations: 10 adjectives (bold, brave, bright, calm, clever, happy, sharp, strong, swift, wise), a second adjective from the same 10, 10 animals (bear, deer, eagle, fox, hawk, lion, owl, shark, tiger, wolf) and 10 verbs (climb, crawl, dash, dive, fly, jump, leap, run, sprint, swim). The two adjectives can be the same, so boldboldbearrun is a valid output. A random number from 0 to 999 is appended without padding, so it may be one, two or three digits. Everything is lowercase and there are no symbols. Lengths run from 14 characters (calmcalmfoxfly0 is 15 with its digit) to 26.

The tool does not remember what it generated, and every one of the 10 million possible outputs is equally likely. Nothing is sent to a server; the pick happens in your browser.

How strong is a memorable password like this

Be realistic about it. Ten thousand word combinations times a thousand numbers is 10 million possibilities, about 23 bits of entropy. Against an online login that locks or throttles after a few wrong guesses, that is plenty; nobody is going to brute-force 10 million attempts through a rate-limited form. Against an offline attack on a leaked password hash, 10 million guesses take a modern GPU well under a second, so this format on its own is not enough for anything that guards money, email or your password manager itself.

Two cheap changes fix most of that. Capitalize one of the words and add a symbol you will remember between two of them (brave-Calm.fox.leap482) and the search space grows by several orders of magnitude while the phrase stays memorable. Or generate two passwords and join them; eight words and two numbers is a genuinely strong passphrase. If you would rather have a random string and let a manager remember it, the Random Password Generator makes those, and the Pronounceable Password Generator sits in between: random syllables you can say but that are not dictionary words.

Where this format works well

• Wi-Fi passwords. Guests read happysharptigerswim310 off a card without asking you to repeat it, and it still is not on any wordlist.
• Shared streaming or household logins. Something a family can remember without a group chat every time the TV logs out.
• Passwords you type on a TV remote or game console. Lowercase letters and digits only, no symbol menus.
• Temporary or first-login passwords. When you set up an account for someone and they will change it, a spoken phrase beats a string of symbols read over the phone.
• Test accounts. Placeholder credentials in a staging system where nobody wants to look up a random string.

Sample output

These were generated with the tool and show the pattern and the range of lengths.

If you need to store a hash of a password rather than the password itself, the SHA256 Hash Generator and MD5 Hash Generator are on the site, and all developer & test data tools are listed together.