Random Letter

A random letter is a letter selected at random from a given alphabet. The standard Latin alphabet consists of 26 letters, from A to Z.

The principle is to randomly select one or more letters from the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet (from A to Z).

In a uniform draw, each letter has an equal probability, or 1 in 26, of being selected on each draw.

For additional options (number of letters, specific constraints), see the dCode page dedicated to random selection.

dCode performs draws with replacement, so that after each selection, the letter is placed back into the set of possibilities, which allows the same letter to be drawn several times.

Check the option Prefer the most used letters

In English, letters do not appear with the same frequency. The letter E is statistically much more frequent than the letter W.

To reproduce realistic conditions used in word games (Scrabble tiles, Boggle dice, Longest Word tiles, letter wheel in Categories, etc.), generate random letters taking these frequencies into account.

dCode allows you to draw letters proportionally to their frequency in the French language or to restrict the selection to vowels or consonants.

Different formulas can be used as random letter picker such as =CHAR(RANDBETWEEN(65,90))

Each time the sheet is recalculated, a new letter is produced randomly and uniformly.

In programming languages, generating a random letter typically involves drawing a random number corresponding to a position in the alphabet and then converting it into a character.