Need to mix up your text for creative writing exercises, brainstorming sessions, or content variation? Our Shuffle Words tool lets you randomize the order of words in any text while giving you complete control over how the shuffling happens. Whether you’re working on creative writing projects, generating content variations, or just having fun with language, this tool makes it easy to shuffle words online.
The Shuffle Words tool works entirely in your browser and processes your text instantly. You can shuffle words within individual sentences, across whole paragraphs, or throughout your entire document. It’s perfect for writers looking to break out of routine phrasing, content creators who need fresh variations, or anyone who wants to experiment with different word arrangements.
How to Use:
- Input your text • Paste or type your text into the input area • Use the file import option to upload text documents • Supported file types include .txt, .csv, .md and other plain text formats
- Choose your shuffle scope • Select “Per paragraph” to shuffle words within each paragraph separately • Choose “Per sentence” to shuffle words within individual sentences • Pick “All text” to shuffle words across the entire document
- Configure preservation options • Toggle “Preserve punctuation” to keep punctuation marks attached to words • Enable “Remove empty lines” to clean up extra spacing • Turn on “Keep sentence starters” to maintain first words of sentences • Use “Preserve line breaks” to maintain your original text structure
- Set exclusions and advanced options • Add words to exclude from shuffling (like “the”, “and”, brand names) • Use the maximize output toggle for better viewing of long texts • Click “Shuffle” to generate a new random arrangement
- Export your results • Copy the shuffled text to your clipboard • Export as a .txt file for external use • View the total word count in the output area
What Shuffle Words can do:
This word shuffling tool gives you precise control over how your text gets randomized. The per-sentence mode is great for maintaining readability while creating variation, since it keeps sentence boundaries intact but mixes up the word order within each sentence. Per-paragraph shuffling works well for longer content where you want to maintain paragraph structure but create interesting word combinations within each section.
The exclude words feature lets you protect important terms from being shuffled. This is useful when you’re working with brand names, technical terms, or specific words that need to stay in context. You can exclude common articles like “the” and “and” to maintain some natural flow, or protect specialized terminology in technical documents.
The tool handles punctuation intelligently by keeping it attached to the appropriate words rather than floating it randomly throughout your text. Line break preservation maintains your document’s visual structure, making it easier to work with formatted content like poetry, lists, or structured documents.
For creative writers, the sentence-starter preservation option maintains natural sentence flow by keeping the first word of each sentence in place. This creates more readable results while still providing the creative randomization you’re looking for.
Example:
Before:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Creative writing becomes more interesting when you shuffle words randomly!(Per sentence):
brown The fox lazy over dog jumps the quick. writing becomes shuffle Creative words when more randomly you interesting!(Per paragraph):
lazy Creative over brown interesting shuffle randomly The writing you more quick when fox becomes dog words jumps the!After (With exclusions: “the”, “you”):
quick fox brown over jumps lazy dog the. becomes writing Creative more when you words shuffle randomly interesting!Shuffle Words Table:
A comparison of different shuffle modes and their effects on sample text.
| Original Text | Shuffle Mode | Result |
|---|---|---|
| The cat sat on the mat | Per sentence | cat The on sat mat the |
| Hello world! How are you? | Per sentence | world Hello! are How you? |
| Good morning everyone | With exclusions: “Good” | Good everyone morning |
| JavaScript is amazing | All text | amazing JavaScript is |
| Writing helps creativity flow | Keep sentence starters | Writing flow helps creativity |
| Python programming tutorial | Per paragraph | tutorial Python programming |
| Quick brown fox jumps | All text shuffle | jumps fox brown Quick |
Common Use Cases:
Writers use this tool for creative exercises and breaking writer’s block by seeing their ideas arranged in unexpected ways. Content creators shuffle existing text to generate fresh variations for social media posts, headlines, or marketing copy. Teachers and students use it for language learning exercises and understanding sentence structure by experimenting with word order. Poets and creative writers mix up their drafts to discover new phrase combinations and rhythms. It’s also handy for brainstorming sessions where you want to approach familiar concepts from different angles, and for anyone who wants to play with language in a fun, experimental way.