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Markov Chain Words

Markov Chain Words

Put extremenly simply, a Markov Chain is a series of events where one event depends on the previous event only.

You can use this tool to create new words from an existing set of words.
Enter your corpus of words into the box below. Somewhere between 50 and 500 words is recommended, but not necessary. However, too few words and there won't be much variation.


Select the maximum depth for the chain. (Smaller number will result in more short words.)

Some ready made lists


100 New Words

How does it work?

We iterate through all the words and break them into vowel groups and consonant groups.
For each word we record which group is a start and which group is an end.
We also record which group can follow another group.
We then output new words by randomly selecting a start group, then slowly build up the word by selecting a valid following group until we find an end group.