Make a passphrase you can actually type
X7!q2#k is strong and untypeable. 'orbit walnut shelf radio' is strong and types itself — random words beat random symbols for humans.
Tools used in this guide
The job
The password you'll type forty times — a disk, a machine login, a vault you'll open on a TV keyboard — shouldn't need a lookup. Five random words from a 700+ word list is ~5×10¹³ combinations: faster to type, easier to say over the phone, and still beyond guessing.
Words, separators, count
Choose 3–12 words per phrase, pick a separator (-, space, or none), and generate up to 50 phrases at once. Capitalization and a trailing number toggle for sites that demand 'a digit and an uppercase letter'.
- The list is a curated English wordlist built for this tool — not the Diceware list, and it doesn't claim Diceware entropy numbers.
- Crypto.getRandomValues picks the words — no predictable seed, nothing reused between phrases.
Where passphrases lose
Anywhere with a character cap under ~30, or a site that demands symbol salad — passphrases are long by design. And they're for humans to type: API keys and stored passwords should be machine-generated strings from a manager.