Generate passwords you can actually remember with WordCreator

It’s important to use strong passwords to secure web accounts, and there are plenty of free generators around to help.

But most produce random results, and although cryptic garbage like "gKlephjjDe" will be hard to guess, it’s also not what we’d call memorable.

WordCreator is a free tool for Windows XP+ which also generates new words, but using syllable lists, which makes them readable and much easier to remember.

Getting started is easy. There’s no installation, just launch the program, choose a word length, the number of words to generate, and click Create.

The default rules generated good results for us. HODASEKI, NETECATI, YEDOHIDE, DUSAHESE and MOTULATE all seemed like words we might remember, and they were from a single list.

If a website has some special rules then you could modify one of these to fit. Take HODASEKI perhaps, replace the K with a lower-case soundalike (HODASEccI), maybe use a couple of special symbols in appropriate places for the word.

The resulting HOD+A-SEccI is rated as "Very Strong" by The Password Meter, yet we think it’s also something we might be able to remember.

WordCreator’s default settings worked well for us, but if you need more then the program offers a vast amount of control over its workings. You’re able to choose syllable lists based on various languages, set up new lists of your own, play around with case, include special characters, or even drop the "readable" idea and generate random passwords based on numbers or various character sets.

Any words you create are displayed in a regular text box, allowing you to select text and copy it to the clipboard as usual.

Alternatively, the entire list may be saved in a single text file for processing elsewhere.

WordCreator is more than just a password generator, and that makes it marginally more difficult to reconfigure than the best of the specialist competition. But its default settings work so well you probably won’t care, and as the program’s also portable and no-strings free it’s worth checking out for yourself.

WordCreator is a free application for Windows XP and later.