Save any word to a flashcard deck, then study with spaced review so the words actually stick — free, with pronunciation audio built into every card.
To use flashcards on FreeDict, add any word to a deck as you browse, then open Flashcards to study it with spaced review. Each card carries the word’s meaning and its pronunciation audio, and the study screen brings the words you find hard back sooner — so your review time goes where it’s needed. You can start a deck with no account; a free account saves your decks across your phone and computer.
Flashcards work best when they’re your words — ones you met and wanted to keep. As you read the dictionary, scroll Flow Mode, or review a quiz, save anything worth remembering to a deck. Because the words come from your own reading, they already have a hook in your memory, which makes them far easier to learn than a generic list.
You can begin building a deck straight away. Signing in with a free, verified account saves your decks so they’re there on every device — start a deck on your phone at lunch, finish it on your laptop that evening.
The study screen shows a word and asks you to recall its meaning before revealing the answer. You then grade how well you knew it. That grade decides when the card comes back: words you nailed return later, words you fumbled return sooner. This is spaced repetition — reviewing each word at the moment you’re about to forget it — and it’s the single most efficient way to memorise vocabulary. Instead of drilling the whole deck evenly, you spend your effort on the handful of words that actually need it.
Two ideas do the heavy lifting:
Each tool has a job. Flow Mode is for discovering words; flashcards are for retaining the ones you chose to keep; quizzes are for proving you’ve learned them. The reliable loop is: meet a word in Flow, save it to a deck, drill it with spaced review, then test it in a quiz. Anything you miss in the quiz goes straight back into the deck.
They’re ideal for exam prep — GRE, SAT, IELTS and language exams all reward a deliberately built vocabulary — and for English learners who want everyday words to become second nature. Writers use them to grow an active vocabulary they can actually reach for, not just recognise. Because you choose every card, the deck is exactly as ambitious or as practical as you need.
Recognising a word is easy; recalling it on demand is what flashcards train. Open Flashcards, save your first few words, and start a deck — then browse the rest of the FreeDict guides to see how it all fits together.
Add any word to a deck as you browse the dictionary, then open Flashcards to study it. You can start building a deck without an account; creating a free account lets you save decks across devices and study them anywhere.
Yes, flashcards are free. You can begin building a deck straight away, and a free account saves your decks so they follow you between your phone and computer.
Spaced repetition means reviewing a word just as you’re about to forget it — soon after you learn it, then at growing intervals. The study screen grades how well you knew each card and brings the hard ones back sooner, so you spend your time on the words you haven’t mastered.
Yes. Each study card has British and American pronunciation audio, so you review how a word sounds along with what it means.
Yes. Any deck can be printed, so you can study on paper as well as on screen.
