diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c628155c..e405459e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@
 ## Unreleased
 ### Added
 ### Changed
+
+* The label letters are no longer sorted before being assigned to URLs
+  ([#2140]2140[]).
+
+
 ### Deprecated
 ### Removed
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/url-mode.c b/url-mode.c
index c25396cd..19d95356 100644
--- a/url-mode.c
+++ b/url-mode.c
@@ -557,14 +557,6 @@ urls_collect(const struct terminal *term, enum url_action action,
     remove_overlapping(urls, term->grid->num_cols);
 }
 
-static int
-c32cmp_qsort_wrapper(const void *_a, const void *_b)
-{
-    const char32_t *a = *(const char32_t **)_a;
-    const char32_t *b = *(const char32_t **)_b;
-    return c32cmp(a, b);
-}
-
 static void
 generate_key_combos(const struct config *conf,
                     size_t count, char32_t *combos[static count])
@@ -607,10 +599,6 @@ generate_key_combos(const struct config *conf,
     }
     free(hints);
 
-    /* Sorting is a kind of shuffle, since we're sorting on the
-     * *reversed* strings */
-    qsort(combos, count, sizeof(char32_t *), &c32cmp_qsort_wrapper);
-
     /* Reverse all strings */
     for (size_t i = 0; i < count; i++) {
         const size_t len = c32len(combos[i]);