Xbox finally reveal when inactive gamertags will become available. Xbox One players hoping to grab an inactive Xbox Live gamertag may not have to. Vast majority of these short and 'popular' handles are already taken. Mar 19, 2018 I have been making new Xbox accounts and redeeming any 4 letter gamertags that I come across, some in all caps and some in random caps. Today alone, 2/16/17, I have redeemed six 'OG' 4 character gt's. I don't even know why I have all these but I have a nice collection. Hope we could possibly see each other randomly in a match Happy gaming!
One Word Usernames
Sometimes you might be on the lookout for a nice short username, made up of one word. We have 29,243 suggestions to choose from, ranging from 1 to 16 characters long.
The downside with these usernames is that a lot of them won't be available on a lot of site since most common words were taken hundreds of years ago, before the advent of plastic, dinosaurs or individually wrapped cheese slices.
This is very similar to the word generator elsewhere on the site, except you can click on the words to check username availability
Still, one can but dream of finding that perfect username that for some strange reason is still available ðŸ˜x81
Username Generator
If you want to include a word of your own in the username suggestions to make the results more personal to you, you could try this username generator. You can enter a word of your choice, and then combine it with other random words to see what you end up with.
Varied and Interesting Options
Check Availability
You can click on a username and check if it's available across a number of social media websites such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc.
Favourites
Additionally, you can click a heart next to a username to add it to your favourites - so you can build up a collection and save them later on, or go to the favourites page and check their availability from there.
If you don't like the hearts getting in the way of the list of results, click the 'toggle' button to hide the hearts.
Sort
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Click on the sort button to display the results list in a model window, and then sort them alphabetically, or by length.
Bells and whistles
If you click on the
Show Bells and Whistles
option, there are a load of useful options, such as:- Nice Font
- Display the username with a nice font on a pretty background colour
- Plural
- Stick an `s` on the end of the word
- Reverse
- Reverse the words in the username so that cart becomes trac
- Filter Text
- Include text you want your username results to include, and once you type in something, select if that should appear anywhere in the word, or at the start or end...
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