Strong Password Examples (and Why They Work)

People search for “strong password examples” hoping to find a ready-made password to use. Here is the uncomfortable truth: the moment a password is published anywhere, it is worthless. Attackers feed public wordlists — including example passwords from articles exactly like this one — straight into their cracking tools. So the value of an example is not a string to copy; it is a shape to recognize, so you can generate your own and know it's strong.

Every example below is an illustration only. Use the password generator to create a unique one no one has ever seen.

Examples of strong random passwords

A strong character password is long and drawn randomly from a large pool of characters (uppercase, lowercase, digits, and symbols). Strength rises with length: each added character multiplies the number of possibilities. These illustrate the shape at common lengths:

• k9P$wq2Zmf3vXtJ816 chars · ~100 bits
• R4!nzx7Qm-tLpV215 chars · ~96 bits
• T3#vQmz9Kp12 chars · ~78 bits

Notice there is no word, name, date, or keyboard run anywhere in them — every position is an independent random draw. For your most important accounts, push to 20 characters or more. Spin up your own with the 16-character generator or the letters-and-numbers generator for systems that reject symbols.

Examples of strong passphrases

A passphrase strings together several randomly chosen words. Each word from the 7,776-word EFF list adds about 12.9 bits of entropy, so five words (~65 bits) is strong and six (~78 bits) gives a comfortable margin. They are far easier to type and remember than a random string:

• glide-cactus-memo-rowboat-anvil5 words · ~65 bits
• velvet.koala.timber.outpost.gravy.lunar6 words · ~78 bits
• correct horse battery staplethe original xkcd example

The strength comes from the words being picked at random, not by you — a sentence you invent (“ILoveMyDog2025!”) is not a passphrase and is easily guessed. Generate a real one with the passphrase generator.

Examples of weak passwords (and why they fail)

These look complicated but are weak, because attackers model exactly these patterns:

• P@ssw0rd1dictionary word + predictable leet substitutions
• Summer2025!season + year + one symbol — a top-cracked pattern
• Qwerty123keyboard walk
• Rover2014pet name + birth year

Rule-based cracking tools try millions of these substitutions and patterns within the first moments of an attack — long before they would reach a genuinely random sequence. A capital letter and a symbol bolted onto a word add almost nothing. You can see this for yourself: paste any candidate into the password strength checker and watch the estimated crack time.

Examples of secure PINs

For numeric PINs, the only goal is to avoid human patterns — dates, repeats, and sequences. Strong PINs look like 820457 or 3961: no meaning, no order. Avoid 1234, 1111, 2580 (a straight line down the keypad), and anything tied to a birthday. Generate one with the PIN generator.

Make your own in ten seconds

The right takeaway from any list of examples is the method, not the strings. Generate a unique, random password or passphrase for every account, store them in a password manager, and never reuse one. For the full method, see how to create a strong password.