On this webpage you can select random samples of words from a text. Enter the text, enter the number and size of the samples and this webpage will do the rest. You can choose to display the Type-Token-Ratio (TTR) and Measure of Textual Lexical Diversity (MTLD) per sample. If you use this tool for research, please cite it using the following reference.
Reuneker, A. (2025). Random text sampler. Retrieved from https://www.reuneker.nl/files/randsamples/ on 26 March 2025.
If you just want to test this tool, you can get random samples from Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea or from Louis Couperus' Stille Kracht (Dutch) by clicking the corresponding button.
Input (text and settings)
Output (samples)
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