Tools for the part
nobody sells you.
The vocabulary, the frequency, the raw lists — the unglamorous half of learning a language, free and open. Everything here works without signing up, and everything here can be taken with you.
- 407,063 words
The most common words in 53 languages
407,063 words ranked by how often they are actually spoken, each with its meaning in English. Search every language at once, or download any slice as CSV or an Anki deck. - 976 words, side by side
Say it in 53 languages
976 everyday English words, each one shown across every language that has a common word for it — how often that language uses it, and how it sounds. - 6 tries, once a day
Five letters, once a day
Guess the day's word in six tries, in any of 42 languages. Every answer is a word that language really uses, and the result copies as a grid you can paste anywhere. - 10 words a day
Which language is this?
Ten words a day, four guesses each. Every word appears in exactly one of the 53 lists, so there are no trick questions. - 10 words, four meanings
Do you know what these words mean?
Ten words a day with four meanings each, drawn from the first fifteen hundred words a language uses most. Shareable score. - 16 writing systems
Alphabets
Every letter of 16 writing systems — Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hangul, Devanagari and the rest — with what each is called and roughly how it sounds. - 55 pairs of languages
Languages that overlap
55 pairs where words are written the same and mean the same — Czech and Slovak share 256 of their commonest two thousand. If you have one of a pair, this is the part you do not have to learn. - 40 words, two minutes
How many words do you know?
Forty words spread from the commonest to the rarest, in any of the 53 languages. Mark the ones you know and see roughly how much of the language that covers.
More will land here as we build them. If there is something you keep wishing existed, the Discord is where we hear about it first.
Learning is easier with someone on the other end.
The tools are free and stay free. The app is where you put them to use — with a person who speaks what you are learning, and is learning what you speak.