Random Letter Wheel (A to Z)
Spin to land on a random letter from A to Z. Great for word games, name prompts, and spelling practice.
Fair by design: each spin draws from your browser’s cryptographic random number generator, giving every entry an equal 1-in-26 chance. No server is involved.
26 entries on the wheel, up to 500.
Every entry has an equal 1-in-26 chance. Write "A *3" to make an entry three times as likely.
The entries travel in the part of the link after the #, which browsers never send to a server. Nobody, including us, can read a shared wheel from a log.
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Random Letter Wheel (A to Z) at a glance
| Slices | 26, 13.8° each |
|---|---|
| Chance per slice, per spin | 1 in 26 (3.8%) |
| Chance of a given slice in 10 spins | 32.4% |
| A repeat becomes likely by | Spin 7 |
| Average spins to see every slice | 100 |
| Category | Classroom wheels |
| Randomness source | crypto.getRandomValues, tested |
| Last updated |
When to spin the Random Letter Wheel (A to Z)
A random letter is the seed for a surprising number of games and prompts. Spin the wheel and use the letter it lands on to start a round of categories, where players name a food, a country, and an animal beginning with it. Writers use it to pick a starting letter for a character name or a story title, and teachers use it for spelling and phonics warm-ups. Because all 26 letters are on the wheel with equal odds, even the tricky ones like Q and Z come up their fair share over a session, which keeps games from getting stale. The letter is displayed clearly after each spin so the whole room can see it at a glance. If you only want vowels, or want to weight the wheel toward common letters, just edit the list in the box and spin again.
26 slices: odds, streaks and repeats
Each of the 26 slices wins a spin 1 in 26, or 3.8%. That sounds rare, yet repeats arrive early: by spin 7 the chance that some entry has already come up twice passes 50%, the same maths as the birthday problem. Landing on every one of them, from A to Z, takes about 100 spins on average, which is why a no-repeat round is the quicker way to work through the whole list.
Tips for spinning it in front of a group
- At 13.8° per slice the labels shrink, so on a projector use Present: the wheel fills the screen and each entry passing under the pointer, A through Z, is shown live in large type. Space or Enter spins and Esc returns to the page.
- Tick Remove after pick and each winner leaves the wheel: 26 spins work through all 26 entries with none drawn twice, and Reset round puts A and the rest back.
- To bring one up more often, add a weight to the end of its line, such as "A *2": it then lands 7.4% of the time and every other slice 3.7%.
Frequently asked questions
Does this wheel include the whole alphabet?
Yes, all 26 letters from A to Z appear exactly once, so any letter is possible on a spin.
What can I actually use a random letter for?
It suits word games, name-a-category rounds, drawing or writing prompts, and picking a starting letter for a challenge or team name.
What is the chance of spinning a specific letter like Q?
Every letter shares the same 1-in-26 chance on each spin, which works out to just under 4%.
Put this wheel on your own site
One line of HTML. No tracking, no cookies, and it works on any page. The embed code sits under the wheel above, and the embed guide has a copy-paste block for WordPress, Google Sites, Notion, Moodle, Canvas and OBS.
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