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A suggestion about randomly generated passwords, pick the dictionary files from Firefox for random languages (that you can write without special keyboards/configs, if I may add), put the words included all in a LibreOffice/Excel sheet and set 4 formulas to pick words from the list at random.
From my experience, they're far more randomic, as well as not uncommonly including special characters, solving part of the pestering for alleged password strength.
XKCD made a comic about that
Yup. That's what inspired me. e.e
I just checked a while back, but forget to answer this. That comic says that the best we can do is use random words, because that's easy to humans to remember. I tried that method and is not the most secure accord this site https://passwordentropy.com/
Randomic?
ESL strikes again =D
I forget "random" doesn't have many inflections.