Word Generator

Word Generator is a simple tool capable of creating random strings of capital (uppercase) characters by taking into account any letters and any number of iterations for each letter.

Before proceeding any further, you should know that it's not designed to create dictionary-based words, although its name may suggest otherwise.

The whole program is packed into a single .exe file that doesn't require installation, making it portable. This means that you can copy it anywhere on the disk or drop it on a USB flash drive to be able to fire up the random word generator on any computer without setup. Unlike many installers, it doesn't create new entries in the system registry or additional files on the disk.

As far as the interface is concerned, Word Generator has a single window that stacks all its options in plain sight. It also has a menu bar with file and editing options.

All letters are displayed in alphabetical order, and each letter is accompanied by up and down arrow buttons. You can click these arrows to increment or decrement the number of occurrences of the letters to take into account for the randomization.

The number of iterations can be viewed in brackets next to each letter. Worth mentioning is that your settings get reset on each randomization task, so it's not possible to make adjustments based on the existing configuration. Instead, you have to set the number of iterations from scratch.

All possible combinations are displayed in a list (one word per line) by taking into account the specified letters and number of occurrences for each letter. You can also check out the total number of generated words as well as copy any entry to the Clipboard.

To our disappointment, we failed in our attempts to copy all words to the clipboard in our tests while testing Word Generator on different Windows versions (both old and new).

The function for selecting all text was not clickable (grayed out) in the "Edit" menu, and the Ctrl+A hotkey responsible for this action didn't work. Too bad that the tool hasn't been updated for a very long time and has a poor set of features.