Shell Programming and Scripting

I have two files:


First file with 10 words, as follow:

randomword1, randomword2, randomword3, randomword4, etc...

Second File shell script.

Code:

word=$(cat hangman_words | cut -d" " -f1)
letters=$(echo $word | wc -c)
letters=$(( $letters - 1 ))
echo $letters
echo $word

The script above will give always give me the first word in the file. I need it to choose a random one each time.

how can i randomly choose a diffrent one everytime i run a script. Hopefully with out using sed or awk.

thx in advance

K