Generating random words in Java?

Question

I wrote up a program that can sort words and determine any anagrams. I want to generate an array of random strings so that I can test my method\'s runtime.

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Answer 1

If you want to generate random words of a given length, you'll either need an algorithm to determine if a given string is a word (hard), or access to a word list of all the words in a given language (easy). If it helps, here's a list of every word in the Scrabble dictionary.

Once you have a list of all words in a language, you can load those words into an ArrayList or other linear structure. You can then generate a random index into that list to get the random word.