Random Word Generator for Songs

The Random Word Generator for Songs draws between one and ten words from a list of 337 and shows each on its own card. The words are ordinary English, the kind that already turn up in lyrics: heart, rain, sunshine, baby, crazy, kiss, tomorrow, secret, faith, rebel, broken, mama. Songwriters use it to get a verse started; players use it for song association, where you have to name a song containing the word before the timer runs out.

How it works

Type how many words you want (1 to 10, default 5) and press the button. The list is shuffled and the first few are taken, so a single batch never repeats a word. Press again for a new shuffle. Words are shown with a capital first letter and nothing else; there is no part-of-speech filter, no theme filter and no rhyme option. If you want a rhyme for a word you drew, the Rhyming Words Generator is the next step.

What kind of words are in the list

The list was assembled with pop, country and hip-hop lyrics in mind rather than from a dictionary. Most entries are short concrete nouns and verbs (belt, hammer, dice, glass, feather, chair, burn, kick, lose, promise), with a strong run of relationship and feeling words (love, trust, care, needy, malice, frustrate, insatiable) and time words that anchor a chorus (again, never, now, tomorrow, wintertime). A few are there because they are famous song words: bleachers, Bel Air, reputation, glitter, finesse, thang. Almost all are single words; only two entries have a space.

It is deliberately not a rare-word list. If you want unusual vocabulary the Random Word Generator draws from a much larger general list, and the Fake Word Generator invents words that do not exist yet.

Ways to use it

• Song association: draw one word and sing a real song that contains it within ten seconds. Draw ten at once for a full round.
• Verse prompts: draw three words and write four lines that use all of them, then keep the best line.
• Title fishing: draw two words and see if the pair works as a title (a draw of "cherry" and "haunt" is already halfway to a song).
• Co-writing warm-ups: everyone in the room gets the same five words and has fifteen minutes to bring back a hook.
• Freestyle practice: rappers use a ten-word draw as the words they must hit, in order, over a beat.

If you would rather have a word chosen from a specific class, the Random Noun Generator and Random Adjective Generator do that, and all word & language generators are collected on one page.