my random word generator rant thing posted to the Conlangs Discord Network's `#tools-and-documentation`

(with some minimal formatting edits)

man i have like 4 different random word generators bookmarked and all of them have features missing for my "idea" random word generator

gen http://www.zompist.com/gen.html

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???

my problems

phonemes need to be 1 char each, di-/tri-graphs need to be done with rewrite rules
ordering of phonemes matters (with dropoff != "equiprobable")
need to list ALL variants of syllables
can't set to no monosyllables

awkwords http://akana.conlang.org/tools/awkwords/

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arbitrary length phonemes
optional and "pick one" for syllable patterns
can set probabilities

my problems

max of 26 categories
can't set syllable structure and generate words of N syllables, have to manually copy-paste syllable structure multiple times

gengo https://collinbrennan.github.io/GenGo/index.html

liked

arbitrary length phonemes
optional and "pick one" for syllable patterns
can set probabilities
rewrites
specify syllable structure and generate words of N to M-syllable words

my problems

incomplete, according to docs (and the github commit history)
weird comment syntax

lexifier https://lingweenie.org/conlang/lexifer-app.html

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arbitrary length phonemes
rejecting, fitering
syllable macros
optional syllable components
cluster fields

my problems

no "pick one" for words
works on word structure rather than syllable structure
need to list many combos of syllables
macros are only 1 character long
no classes in classes
order of phonemes matters

MY IDEAL WORD GENERATOR

arbitrary length phonemes (awk, gengo, lex)
rejecting, filtering, rewrites (gen, awk, gengo, lex)
optional, "pick one", repeated syllable components (awk, gengo, ½lex)
specify syllable, generate N-M-syllable words (gengo)
pure random (½gen, awk, gengo), or based on worldwide phoneme frequency (none of these, yet)