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The challenge is simple:

generate a word.

Specifications:

  • Word must be pronounceable.
    • This is defined as "alternating between a consonant and a vowel."
    • A consonant is one of the following letters: bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz
    • A vowel is one of the following letters: aeiouy
  • Word must be randomly generated.
  • Words must be able to contain every consonant and vowel. (You can't just use bcdf for consonants and aei for vowels.)
  • Word must contain 10 letters.
  • Shortest code (in character count) wins.
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    \$\begingroup\$ codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11215/alien-name-generator \$\endgroup\$
    – John Dvorak
    Commented Jun 18, 2013 at 4:43
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    \$\begingroup\$ With this xkcd strip in mind, the program echo buxitiwymu technically conforms to the specification. I assure you, I generated the word randomly:P \$\endgroup\$
    – AardvarkSoup
    Commented Jun 23, 2013 at 22:02
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    \$\begingroup\$ @AardvarkSoup "Words must be able to contain every consonant and vowel" \$\endgroup\$
    – Doorknob
    Commented Jun 23, 2013 at 22:52
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    \$\begingroup\$ @Kartik depends on the context, in 'yes' it's a consonant, in 'why' it's a vowel, but this would make it impossible to define a pronounceable word as alternating between vowels and consonants, eg. yyyyyyyy would be a valid word. \$\endgroup\$
    – JimmyMcHoover
    Commented Feb 17, 2015 at 22:30
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    \$\begingroup\$ I actually made a generator on Scratch a while back. It had specific rules for when you can treat y as a vowel, where you can use q and x, and when you can use two-letter combinations like ng or ea \$\endgroup\$
    – Esolanging Fruit
    Commented Nov 6, 2016 at 21:42

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Thunno 2 J, 9 bytes

5ıkykz,€ɼ

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Explanation

5ıkykz,€ɼ  # Implicit input
5ı         # Repeat 5 times:
  ky  , ɼ  #  Random vowel
    kz €ɼ  #  Random consonant
           # Join into a string
           # Implicit output
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Vyxal s, 8 bytes

k¹k∪"5ƈ∩

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    "    # Pair
k¹       # Consonants
  k∪     # And vowels
     5ƈ  # Choose 5 random items from each
       ∩ # Interleave
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Ruby, 61 bytes

Port of l4m2's clever JavaScript solution; give them an upvote!

1until rand(9e99).to_s(36)=~/([^aeiouy\d][aeiouy]){5}/
puts$&

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Jelly, 13 bytes

Øy,ØYẊ€Zs5ḢŒl

Explanation:

Øy,ØYẊ€Zs5ḢŒl
Øy,ØY         Makes a list of two lists of characters: [[list-of-vowels-with-y], [list-of-consonants-without-y]]
     Ẋ€       Shuffle €ach.
       Z      Zip those two lists together. [[random-vowel, random-consonant],...]
        s5    Split them into chunks of five (because each pair contains two letters, this splits them into chunks of 10 letters)
          Ḣ   Take the list of 5 pairs.
           Œl Make each of the characters in it lowercase
              Implicit concatenation and print.

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C (gcc), 63 bytes

c;f(n){for(n=10;n;81192%c-n&1||putchar(c,n--))c=97+clock()%26;}

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Zsh --braceccl, 57 bytes

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shuf -n5 <(echo {bcdfghj-np-tvwxz}{aeiouy}|rs 0 1)|rs -g0

Alternates: 67b using jot ; 77b using arrays

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