Random Letters
You would think it was easy to create random words ... just pick letters randomly and put them together, and voila! a random word.
Well, here are 20 words made that way:
| tldkl oewkx dmwol vuptg hvwjk naqid avypr zwtip zgnzs bvdhd muyfd ighgd xhlng oyecn vjnsl ssjrx gxald tukxj rvfoq yxzxq |
It turns out that the words are not only nonsense, but quite hard to pronounce!
(Try saying "tldkl" or "oewkx")
You see, the probability is very unlikely ... you would have to try lots of random combinations before getting lucky.
Why? Well, English has around 200,000 words (228,000 in the Oxford English Dictionary including many words no longer used) ... but how many different words can be made with just 5 letters?
26 × 26 × 26 × 26 × 26 = 11,881,376 possible 5 letter words!
And that is just the 5 letter words ...