Shuffle Words

In short Shuffling words reorders the words in your text randomly, either within each line or across the whole document. Within-line shuffling keeps the line structure and scrambles each line independently, which is what you want for a list or for generating puzzle sentences. Across the whole document mixes everything, which is used for testing rather than for reading. The uses are narrower than shuffling lines: word-order puzzles and exercises, testing how a system handles nonsense input that has real vocabulary, and generating text that has the right word distribution but no meaning. That last one is genuinely useful for testing search and indexing, because it produces something statistically like real text without being real text. Punctuation stays attached to the word it was on, so a shuffled sentence keeps its full stop somewhere in the middle — that is unavoidable when treating punctuation as part of the token, and it is a visible reminder that the output is not a sentence. The randomness comes from the same cryptographic source as the line shuffler.