random: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 9 letter points · starts with R · ends with M
Meaning of random
noun
- countable, uncountable
A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
- colloquial, countable, figuratively, uncountable
An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.
Example: The party was boring. It was full of randoms.
- countable, uncountable
The direction of a rake-vein.
- countable, obsolete, uncountable
Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.
Listed forms: randoms.
Source: Wiktionary — random.
adj
Occurring for no particular reason; haphazard, unpredictable.
Example: Our city is plagued by random acts of violence.
Involving an outcome which is impossible to predict, but which may be represented by a probability distribution; in the ideal case, involving outcomes which are equally likely.
Example: The flip of a fair coin is purely random.
Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.
Example: The rand function generates a random number from a seed.
- informal
Selected for no particular reason; arbitrary; unspecified.
Example: A random American off the street couldn't tell the difference.
Source: Wiktionary — random.
verb
- intransitive, uncommon
To wander; to stray; to meander.
Listed forms: randoms, randoming, randomed.
Source: Wiktionary — random.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is random in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
These are spelling-list matches, not official game validity checks. Check the rules and dictionary used by your game.
Letter-value score of random
R(1) + A(1) + N(1) + D(2) + O(1) + M(3) = 9 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of random
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from random
56 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in random. Showing up to 24, longest first.