Learn English words while you read the web.

WordySpot underlines the ones you do not know yet.

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The extension needs desktop Chrome or Firefox — make your account now and add it there. Also for Chrome Also for Firefox How it works

  • Free while in beta
  1. 01

    Add the extension

    Chrome or Firefox, straight from the store. You do this part on your computer.

  2. 03

    Read anything

    Point at a marked word. Two seconds, then carry on.

The whole page at a glance

Or clear the whole page in one pass.

The panel lists every unfamiliar word on the page and how often it appears. Tick, file, done.

  • Definitions and pronunciation
  • Known · Learning · your own lists
  • Common words filtered out
  • Per-site rules

Why it keeps working

The same page, month after month.

Every word you mark as known stops being highlighted, everywhere. The page going quiet is the progress bar.

First week

The harbour was tranquil at dawn, a thin haze over the water, the last boats drifting in with their hulls dark against a pallid sky.

A month in

The harbour was tranquil at dawn, a thin haze over the water, the last boats drifting in with their hulls dark against a pallid sky.

Six months in

The harbour was tranquil at dawn, a thin haze over the water, the last boats drifting in with their hulls dark against a pallid sky.

One year, two paces

Three words a week beats fifty words once.

Not because three is a lot. Because fifty happens once, and three keeps happening.

Three words a week, every week Fifty words in one week, then nothing
Words known over one year, two paces compared A flat line holds at fifty words all year after a single intense week. A rising line adds three words a week and reaches one hundred and fifty-six by the end of the year, passing the flat line in week seventeen. 0 50 100 150 Week 17 — they cross 156 words 50 words Week 1 3 months 6 months 9 months 1 year

The big push

50 words after a year

A hard week in January, an app you stop opening in February.

Reading anyway

156 words after a year

One word every other day, on pages you were going to read regardless.

This is arithmetic, not a promise — and it is generous to the push: the flat line assumes you forget none of the fifty. Nobody quits because three a week is hard. They quit because a study session needs a mood.

WordySpot only has to make the second line possible. Nothing to open, nothing to review — the words are already on the page you meant to read.

Ready-made vocabulary

Or start from a word pack someone already built

Load a themed word list and treat it as known from day one.

Start with the words you meet today.

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