English Vocabulary Words
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Favourites
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During a quiz, tap the star to keep words for practice.
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Clear the favourites
Removes the star from every favourite in the currently selected language and empties that language's list. Favourites in the other languages, the words themselves, their statistics, the words-to-improve lists, the words you added, your preferences and your consent to save on this device are unchanged.
Words to improve
Collecting requires consent to save on this device
Collecting is off
While collecting is on, every word you get wrong in a quiz joins this list so that you can come back to it. A word leaves the list after two correct answers in a row, or when you press the ✓ beside it.
There are no words to improve right now.
A word you get wrong in a quiz appears here, and comes off the list once you answer it correctly twice in a row.
A word comes off the list after two correct answers in a row, or when you press the ✓ beside it.
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Clear the list
Empties the currently selected language's list and nothing else. Lists in the other languages, the words themselves, their statistics, your favourites, the words you added, your preferences and your consent to save on this device are unchanged. Collecting stays on, and a word you get wrong again will rejoin that language's list.
My words
Words you add here join the selected language's quizzes at the level you choose, alongside the app's own words.
Adding words requires consent to save
Words I added
You haven't added any words in this language yet.
A word you add appears in the selected language's quizzes alongside the app's own words, and you can always edit or delete it here.
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Back up my words
Saves a .txt file on your device with every word you added in every language, grouped by language and by level. The file is created in your browser and is sent to no server. Keeping a copy is recommended — the site does not back up the words you added and cannot restore them if your browser data is cleared.
Delete my words
Deletes the words you added in the currently selected language, and only the statistics, favourite marks and words-to-improve entries gathered on them. The words you added in the other languages, the statistics on the app's own words, your preferences and your consent to save on this device are unchanged.
Statistics
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Statistics are collected and shown only after you consent to saving on this device.
Last 7 days
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Recent games
The site's word bank is updated from time to time. If a word is removed from the bank or its identifier changes, the statistics, the favourite mark and the place on the words-to-improve list gathered on it are deleted from this device on the next load and cannot be restored. The words you added yourself are not affected.
Delete data
Deletes the game history and the counters of correct and wrong answers in every language, not only the one shown above, and nothing else. Your favourites, the words-to-improve list, the words you added, your preferences and your consent to save on this device are unchanged.
Deletes everything the app has stored on this device — the statistics, the games, the favourites, the words-to-improve list, the preferences, the words you added and any saved editor drafts — and withdraws your consent to save on this device. Two things are not covered: the app's offline copy of its own files, which holds nothing about you, and the language you chose on the home screen, which is not stored under consent — it is the two letters of that language and nothing more. The offline copy goes when you uninstall the app or clear this site's data in the browser; the language is forgotten by "Reset settings to defaults", and by itself a year after you chose it.
Settings
Save progress on this device
For partial deletion only: you can delete the statistics on the statistics page, the favourites on the favourites page, the words-to-improve list on the "Words to improve" page, the words you added on the "My words" page, and reset the preferences at the bottom of this screen — without withdrawing consent and without deleting the rest.
Collect words to improve
Add the app to this device
Colours
The app is dark unless you ask here for light, whatever your phone or computer is set to. Light puts darker text on a white background, which many people find easier to read in daylight. Your choice is kept on this device for a year whether or not you have agreed to save your progress — it is one of two words, and it says nothing else about you. "Reset settings to defaults" at the bottom of this screen returns the app to dark and removes that record.
Bold text
Draws the app's text heavier throughout — the running text most of all, since it is the part that is not bold already, and the headings and scores with it so that they still stand out from it. It can make a small screen or a bright one easier to read. The app uses your own device's font, so this is the same thickening your phone or computer applies with its own bold-text setting. It is remembered in the same way as the colours above.
How many words per round?
How many answers per question?
Four is the default. Fewer answers make a question quicker to read and easier to get right; more make a lucky guess less likely. This applies to the multiple-choice quiz only — nothing changes when you type the answer — and it takes effect from the next round, so a round already under way keeps the number it started with. A question offers fewer answers than you picked when the level does not hold enough words with different translations.
When should the next word appear?
Choosing a number of seconds moves on automatically after each answer. "On click" leaves the answer on screen until you press "Next word" — useful when you want time to read the word and repeat it.
How long do you get to answer?
The default is no limit — there is no clock and the question waits as long as you need. Choosing a number of seconds starts a clock on every question: if the time runs out before you answer, the word counts as wrong and the round continues.
Speech speed
Applies to every word the app reads out, in both languages and with any of the voices below. Choosing a speed plays a full sentence in the selected language, because a single word is over too quickly to hear the difference.
English voice
Spanish voice
Reset the settings
Returns the preferences on this screen to their defaults: selected language and the language it is practised against (back to English), the colours (back to dark) and the text weight (back to normal), words per round, how many answers a question offers, how the next word arrives, the time limit for answering, the speech speed, the voices, the practice direction, the quiz type, and collecting the words to improve (which returns to off). Your statistics, favourites, the words-to-improve list itself, the words you added and your consent to save on this device are unchanged.
Pronunciation is produced by your browser's or device's speech engine, and in some browsers the spoken text may be sent to the browser vendor. Details
How the app works
This app helps you learn words in another language. It shows you a word, you answer, and it tells you straight away whether you were right. It is free, there is nothing to sign up for, and everything you do stays on your own phone or computer.
First, what this app is not
It is a study aid, and nothing more. The words, the translations, the pronunciation and the numbers are offered with no guarantee that they are correct, complete or right for your situation. Translation depends on the sentence around a word and on the region it is spoken in, and each word here shows one common meaning of it. The app is not advice of any kind — linguistic, educational, professional or otherwise.
So when something matters — an exam, your work, a document, a conversation you cannot get wrong — look the word up in another source as well. Nobody accepts liability for a loss that comes from relying on what you read here. The whole of it is set out in the disclaimer, and it is short.
Start in three steps
- Choose your language. At the top of the home screen, tap one of the thirteen names. Each is written in its own language, so you can find yours without reading English: Español (Spanish), Français (French), Italiano (Italian), Português (Portuguese), Русский (Russian), العربية (Arabic), 中文 (Chinese), हिन्दी (Hindi), বাংলা (Bengali), Deutsch (German), 日本語 (Japanese) or اردو (Urdu) or Indonesia (Indonesian).
- Choose what to practise it against. The second row, Practise against, is English to begin with, and for most people that is the whole point: you learn English through the language you already know. You can set it to any of the other languages instead, and then the two are practised directly against each other — Français against Español, with no English in between. Every one of the languages can be paired with every other.
- Choose how you want to practise. "English → Español" shows you an English word and you answer in Spanish; "Español → English" goes the other way round. The two buttons always name the pair you chose above, whichever it is. Then pick Multiple choice, where you tap one of the answers on the screen, or Type the answer, where you write it yourself.
- Choose a level and start. Level 1 is basic words, level 2 is a step up, level 3 is the hardest, and Mix takes words from all three. Tap one and the round begins.
A round is ten words to begin with. You can make it five, twenty or fifty in the settings, and you can change the language or the direction whenever you like — each language keeps its own favourites, its own lists and its own statistics.
While you answer
Hear the word
Tap the big word at the top and your device reads it aloud. Every word in the lists on the other screens can be tapped in the same way.
Keep a word for later
Tap the star and the word goes into your favourites, so you can come back and practise those words on their own.
Give your answer
In multiple choice, tap the answer you think is right. When you type, write the word and press "Check" — or press "I don't know" if you would rather just be shown it.
Small differences are forgiven
When you type, capital letters, accents, apostrophes, hyphens and punctuation make no difference. If a word has more than one correct translation, any of them is accepted.
A clock, only if you want one
Normally a question waits as long as you need. In the settings you can give yourself 5 to 30 seconds instead; when the time runs out the word counts as a mistake and the round carries on.
On to the next word
A right answer turns green and a wrong one red, and the correct answer is always shown. The next word arrives after a couple of seconds, or waits for you to press "Next word" — whichever you chose in the settings.
Leaving in the middle
The ✕ at the top ends the round. The answers you have already given still count towards your statistics.
When the round ends
- Your score — how many you got right, as a number and as a percentage.
- Every word of the round, each with a ✓ or a ✗. Tap any of them to hear it again.
- "Practise the mistakes again" — a fresh round made only of the words you got wrong.
- "Play … again" — another round of the same kind, with new words.
- "Back to home" — back to the start, to change language, direction or level.
What the other buttons do
Favourites
The words you starred. Here you can hear them, practise only them, or take the star off again. Every language has a list of its own.
Words to improve
A list that fills itself: every word you get wrong joins it, so nothing you stumbled on is lost. A word leaves the list after two correct answers in a row, or when you press the ✓ beside it. Switch the collecting on in the settings — it starts off.
My words
Add words of your own: the English word, the translation, and the level it should belong to. From then on your word appears in that language's quizzes beside the app's own words. You can change a word, delete it, or download all of them as a text file to keep. Up to 300 words in all the languages together, and 60 letters in each field. A word you add has an English side and one other language, so it appears when that language is practised against English — a pair of two other languages has nowhere to put it.
Statistics
How many rounds you have played, how many answers you gave and how many were right; a chart of the last seven days; how much of each level you have already met; the five words you get wrong most often, with a button to practise exactly those; and your most recent rounds. The numbers are for the language you have selected.
Settings
Everything you can adjust, one card at a time. The list is just below.
Everything in the settings
- Save progress on this device
- The app keeps nothing about your practice until you say yes. With saving on, your favourites, your statistics, your own words and these settings are remembered on this device. With it off you can still practise as much as you like — nothing you do is kept once the page is closed. Three things are remembered either way, so that the app opens as you left it: the language you picked at the top of the home screen, and the two below — the colours and bold text. None of the three says anything about you beyond what you chose.
- Collect words to improve
- Switches the 🎯 list on or off. It starts off, and it needs saving to be on.
- Add the app to this device
- Puts the app on your home screen. See "Practising without the internet" below.
- How many words per round
- Five, ten, twenty or fifty. Ten to start with.
- How many answers per question
- Between two and five. Fewer answers are quicker to read; more make a lucky guess less likely. This is for multiple choice only, and it applies from your next round.
- When should the next word appear
- After one to five seconds, or "On click" — then the answer stays on the screen until you press "Next word", which is useful if you want time to read the word and say it out loud.
- How long do you get to answer
- "No limit" to begin with, so a question waits for you. Choose a number of seconds and a clock runs on every question.
- Speech speed
- Slow, normal or fast, for every word the app reads out. Choosing a speed plays a whole sentence, because a single word is over too quickly to hear the difference.
- A voice for each of the two languages
- One card for the language you are practising and one for the language you are practising it against, both named after the pair you chose. If your device has more than one voice for a language, you can pick another one. Press a voice and you hear it at once. If nothing is heard at all, this card explains how to add a voice to your device.
- Colours
- Dark to begin with, on every device. Choose "Light" for darker text on a white background; the legal pages follow your choice too. The app remembers which you picked even when you have not agreed to save your progress, because it is a preference you asked for and it holds nothing else.
- Bold text
- Draws the text of the whole app heavier, the ordinary text most of all. Headings and scores move up with it, so the screen keeps its shape. It can help on a small or a bright screen, and it is remembered in the same way as the colours.
- Reset the settings
- Puts everything on that screen back the way it started. Nothing you have saved is deleted.
Your data stays with you
- Nothing you do here is sent to the site operator. There is no account, no name, no email address and no password.
- Everything is kept in this browser, on this device only. The same app on another device, or in another browser, starts empty.
- You can delete each kind of data on its own — the statistics, the favourites, the words to improve, the words you added, the settings — or delete everything at once and take your consent back, on the settings screen.
- If you clear your browser's data, or practise in a private window, what was saved goes with it. The site keeps no copy and cannot bring it back, so use the download button on "My words" to keep the words you added yourself.
- The app is meant for ages 14 and over. It asks for nothing that could identify you, but that is the age it is written for — see clause 7 of the terms of use.
The full details are in the privacy policy and the cookie and local-storage policy.
About the voice
The app neither records nor produces the sound itself: it asks your browser or your device to read the word out. That is why the accent and the quality depend on the device you are using, and why the same word can sound different elsewhere. In some browsers the text of the word is sent to the maker of the browser so that it can be read aloud — see the privacy policy. Treat what you hear as a helpful illustration rather than the last word on pronunciation.
Practising without the internet
Open the settings and look for "Add the app to this device". On most phones and computers it is a single press; on an iPhone or iPad the steps are written out for you. Afterwards the app has its own icon, opens without the browser's toolbars and works with no connection at all. Nothing comes from an app store, and no account is needed.
Two more things worth knowing
- The translations were produced with the help of artificial intelligence and may contain mistakes. If a word looks wrong to you, it is worth checking it in another source.
- The word list is updated from time to time, and the app offers you a reload when a new one is published. If a word disappears from the list, the statistics, the star and the place on the words-to-improve list gathered on it go with it. The words you added yourself are never affected.
Everything here can be used with a keyboard alone: Tab moves from one button to the next, the arrow keys move along a row of choices, and Enter or the space bar presses. There is an accessibility statement in the legal pages.
For learning only. The translations were produced with the help of artificial intelligence and may contain inaccuracies; they carry no guarantee, and no liability is accepted for loss arising from reliance on them. Pronunciation is illustrative only; verifying it against another source is recommended.
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