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This is a generator for random passwords. It is also useful as the answer to security questions.
- Install gshuf. It's in GNU coreutils. On Macs with homewbrew,
brew install coreutils. (On Linux, it night be called just shuf.) - ./get-some.sh
These are some of the most common English words, filtered for both written and pronounced distinction (also no swear words). None of the words on this list should be confusing or amibguous to a proficient English speaker. This is useful for when it's e.g. a security question someone asks you over the phone, and may help people with some kinds of learning difficulties to remember and reproduce them.
There are 1633 words in the list. Each word gets you log2 1633 ~= 10.6 bits of entropy. That means four to five words are a strong password that's much easier to remember than the equivalent password with weird character requirements, even if the attacker knows that's how you picked your password.
Your password manager won't require that, because they know better. You should have a password manager.