English Vocabulary Words
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Level
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Timing
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Between words
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The words from this set
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Favourites
No favourite words yet.
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 pair and empties that pair's list. Favourites in the other pairs, 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, or when you delete it from the list.
A word comes off the list after two correct answers in a row, or when you press the 🗑 beside it. That takes only that word off this list; the words themselves stay in the quizzes. The button at the bottom of the page clears the whole list.
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Clear the list
Empties the currently selected language's list and resets the consecutive-correct streaks that belong to it. To take one word off the list without emptying it, press the 🗑 on its row. Lists in the other languages, the words themselves, their correct/wrong answer 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 pair'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 pair yet.
A word you add appears in the selected pair's quizzes alongside the app's own words, and you can always edit or delete it here.
The words you add are stored on your device only; pressing speak may send the word to your browser vendor. Details about speech and privacy
Back up my words
Saves a .txt file on your device with every word you added in every pair, grouped by pair 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 pair, and only the statistics, favourite marks and words-to-improve entries gathered on them. The words you added in the other pairs, the statistics on the app's own words, your preferences and your consent to save on this device are unchanged.
Statistics
No data yet.
Statistics are collected and shown only after you consent to saving on this device.
Last 7 days
By level
Hardest words
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 the app's saved statistics, games, favourites, words-to-improve list, settings, selected and recent language codes, display choices, words you added and editor drafts. It also clears the same information from this open page and withdraws consent. A minimal refusal record remains so the app does not ask again; it contains only the answer, date and policy version.
Settings
Practice
Words per round
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.
Next word
Choosing a waiting time moves on automatically after each answer — half a second is enough to glance at the marked answer, two and a half leaves time to read it. One and a half seconds to start with. "On click" leaves the answer on screen until you press "Next word" — useful when you want time to read the word and repeat it.
Time 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
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
Appearance
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.
Saving
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
Reset
Returns the preferences on this screen to their defaults: the selected-language record is removed and the pair is set to the same browser-based suggestion used on a first visit (Spanish and English only when no supported browser language is found); colours return to dark, text weight to normal, and the remaining quiz, voice and collection settings return to their defaults. Your statistics, favourites, the words-to-improve list itself, the words you added and your consent to save on this device are unchanged.
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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 and there is nothing to sign up for. Your saved practice data stays on your own phone or computer; if you press a speak button, your browser or device provider may process the spoken word.
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. The word-list content and translations were generated by artificial intelligence and have not been proofread, edited or reviewed by a person — not a native speaker, not a translator, not in any of the languages here. Translation also 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. And for anything official or professional there is a plainer answer: this is the wrong tool. A certified or sworn translation, a medical or legal matter, an immigration form, a contract, a safety instruction or a warning label all need a qualified person, and nothing here is one. To the extent permitted by applicable law, no liability is accepted for a loss that comes from relying on what you read here.
The levels and the numbers are worth the same caution. Level 1, 2, 3 and the Mix are just a way of sorting the words for practice — they are not a test of your level, they do not line up with the Common European Framework or any other scale, and a score here is not a qualification you can show anyone. The whole of it is set out in the disclaimer, and it is short.
Start in three steps
- The app opens on your own languages. It reads the list of languages your browser already announces to every site. If the first of those is not English, the app opens on English practised against that language — a browser that names French, and nothing else that matters, is taken as someone who reads French and came for English. If the first is English, it looks at the next language on the list that it has: English then Hebrew opens on Hebrew practised against English, so a second language is not thrown away just because English came first. If the browser names only English, or nothing the app has, it opens on Español and English as it always did. While a pair is still the one your browser suggested, the button at the top of the home screen says "from your browser" next to it, so you can always tell which it is. That guess is never stored anywhere, and the moment you choose a pair yourself it is your choice that is remembered instead — and the wording goes. To practise a different language, tap Change at the top of the home screen. Search by English name, native name or code, or pick from Recent, Popular or the A–Z list. The names are written in their own languages, so you can find yours without reading English: English (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), اردو (Urdu), Indonesia (Indonesian), Türkçe (Turkish), Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese), 한국어 (Korean), Polski (Polish), فارسی (Persian), ไทย (Thai), سوداني (Sudanese Arabic), မြန်မာ (Burmese), አማርኛ (Amharic), Українська (Ukrainian), Nederlands (Dutch), ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (Eastern Punjabi), پنجابی (Western Punjabi), Hausa (Hausa), עברית (Hebrew), Filipino (Filipino), Kiswahili (Swahili), తెలుగు (Telugu), தமிழ் (Tamil), मराठी (Marathi), Română (Romanian), پښتو (Pashto), ગુજરાતી (Gujarati), ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada), മലയാളം (Malayalam), Yorùbá (Yoruba), Igbo (Igbo), Kurdî (Kurdish), Afaan Oromoo (Oromo), Soomaali (Somali), Ελληνικά (Greek), Čeština (Czech), Magyar (Hungarian), Svenska (Swedish), नेपाली (Nepali), ខ្មែរ (Khmer), සිංහල (Sinhala), Oʻzbekcha (Uzbek), Azərbaycanca (Azerbaijani), Melayu (Malay), Kreyòl (Haitian Creole) or Afrikaans (Afrikaans). I speak is the language whose words you practise, and it is also taken at its word: when you choose both sides yourself, the app treats it as the language you read, and writes its own notices — the caution under the footer, and the storage dialog — in that language rather than guessing from your browser. Then pick Practise against — English to begin with, which is what most people came for. 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.
The same picker also includes: مصري (Egyptian Arabic), 粵語 (Cantonese), Jawa (Javanese), شامي (Levantine Arabic), भोजपुरी (Bhojpuri), 吴语 (Wu Chinese), Norsk (Norwegian), Dansk (Danish), Suomi (Finnish), Català (Catalan), دارجة (Moroccan Arabic) and 繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese).
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 pair keeps its own favourites, and each language keeps 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 pair 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. You can also clear the whole list. Switch the collecting on in the settings — it starts off.
My words
Add words of your own: both sides of the pair you have selected, and the level they should belong to. From then on your word appears in that pair'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 pairs together, and 60 letters in each field. A word you add belongs only to the pair it was added under — Spanish against Japanese is not the same list as Spanish against Hebrew.
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, grouped by what it changes — practice, speech, appearance and saving. The list is just below.
Advanced Learning
Advanced Learning reads a set of words out loud in both languages, one after the other. Nothing is spoken until you press Play, and Pause stops it wherever it has reached. On the screen you choose the level the words are drawn from — the same three levels and the Mix as on the home screen — how many times each word is read before the next one arrives (once, twice or three times; once to begin with), and the pause between the two languages and the pause before the next word. At the end you can hear the same set again, hear a new set, or go home.
If you have a keyboard
None of these is needed. Each one presses a button that is already on the screen, and every one of those buttons can still be tapped. While you are typing an answer the letters belong to the answer, so the shortcuts stand aside until you leave the field.
- ?
- Opens this page from any screen, and closes it again. Not from inside a round — end the round first, and the round has a key of its own for that.
- Esc
- One step back: it ends the round, leaves Advanced Learning, or returns you to the home screen. While a dialog is open it closes the dialog instead.
- 1 to 9
- In multiple choice, chooses that answer counting from the top. They stop working the moment the question is answered, exactly as the buttons do.
- S
- Reads the word being asked out loud — the same as tapping it.
- F
- Puts the word into your favourites, or takes it out again.
- N
- The next word, when the round is waiting for you to ask for it. In Advanced Learning it skips to the next pair.
- P
- Play or pause Advanced Learning.
- R
- On the results screen, practise the same words again in the same direction. In Advanced Learning, the same pair once more.
- V
- On the results screen, practise the same words again in the reverse direction.
- W
- On the results screen, practise new words in the same direction.
- M
- On the results screen, practise the mistakes again — when the round left any.
When you type your answers, Enter does both jobs on its own: it checks what you wrote, and then, if the round waits for a press, it moves you on — so your hands never leave the keyboard.
Everything in the settings
- Words per round
- Five, ten, twenty or fifty. Ten to start with.
- 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.
- Next word
- After half a second to two and a half 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.
- Time 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 choice 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 block 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.
- Save progress on this device
- The app keeps no practice history until you say yes. With saving on, your favourites, statistics, added words and these settings are remembered on this device. With it off you can still practise, but temporary scores disappear when the page closes. Three functional records may remain: your save/refuse choice; after an explicit language choice, only the currently selected pair, date and choice flag; and after a non-default display choice, the colours, bold-text setting and date. With valid saving consent, the language record may additionally keep up to five recent language codes for the Recent list. They contain no practice results or identifier.
- Collect words to improve
- Switches the 🎯 list on or off. It starts off, and it needs saving to be on.
- Reset the settings
- Puts every preference on that screen back to its default and removes the saved language and display choices. Your statistics, favourites, words-to-improve list and words you added are not deleted.
Your data stays with you
- The app does not send your answers, saved progress or added words to the site operator. There is no account, name or password. Ordinary page requests can create technical hosting logs; an email you choose to send is received by the operator, and speech may be processed by your browser or device provider.
- Your saved records are kept in this browser and are not uploaded. The same app on another device, or in another browser, starts empty. Requesting a selected language file can reveal that filename in technical hosting logs, and pressing a speak button may send that word and technical data to the browser or device provider.
- 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 all saved app data and settings at once and take your consent back, on the settings screen. A minimal refusal record remains.
- 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.
A few more things worth knowing
- The word-list content and translations were generated by artificial intelligence and may contain mistakes. They have not been proofread, edited or reviewed by a person. If a word looks wrong to you, check 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.
- The Install app on this device button on the home screen can add the Site to your device. It creates a shortcut to this same site, labelled helium3words.com. It is not an app-store app and it does not work offline — a network connection is still required. Saved progress stays on the device as before. On iPhone and iPad the icon can have a storage area of its own, separate from the browser tab.
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.