Build your vocabulary the way you already scroll. Vocabulary Flow serves one word at a time — meaning, pronunciation, an example and a translation — then the next. Pick a level, a topic or a language and start.
Each level draws on the words graded at it, so a beginner never meets a C2 word and an advanced learner is not shown house. If you do not know your level, start at B1 and move when it feels easy.
Two feeds that are not graded by level, because they are not about difficulty. Slang moves faster than any dictionary; word origins make a word stick because you finally know why it means what it means.
Every feed below runs in both directions. Scroll English words with the meaning in your language, or scroll your own language with the English underneath — whichever way round you are learning.
Most vocabulary apps hand you a list and ask you to memorise it. That works for the fortnight before an exam and rarely much longer, because a word learned off a list has nowhere to attach itself. You can recall that perfunctory was on the list without being able to use it in a sentence.
Vocabulary Flow starts from the opposite end. Every card is a real dictionary entry — the definition we publish, the pronunciation, a sentence the word actually appears in, and where the word came from. You meet the word in the shape you will meet it in the wild, and you meet it while doing something you already do for hours a day, which is scroll.
The mechanic is deliberately thin. Swipe or press the arrow keys; a new word arrives. Most cards ask nothing of you at all. Occasionally one asks whether you know the word, or offers three meanings and asks you to pick — enough to tell the feed something about you, never enough to turn it into homework.
That matters more than it sounds. The reason people abandon vocabulary practice is not difficulty, it is friction: opening the app, choosing a deck, committing to a session. A feed has none of that. You open it in a queue and close it two minutes later having met nine words you had not seen before.
Every word in the feed is drawn from the same dictionary the rest of the site runs on — around 52,000 published English headwords with definitions, word forms, pronunciation, etymology and, for most of them, an original usage note written for learners rather than lifted from a corpus. Slang is moderated and kept clean. Nothing in the feed is generated on the fly.
Because the entries carry a frequency rank and a CEFR level, the feed can be graded. Beginner tracks stay inside the words a beginner will genuinely use; advanced tracks skip the words you learned years ago. That is what the level buttons above are doing — narrowing the pool, not changing the format.
If you are learning English rather than expanding an English vocabulary you already have, the bilingual feeds are the ones to use. Choose a language and the feed serves English words with the meaning in that language attached, or the reverse — useful whether you are reading English and getting stuck, or writing it and reaching for a word you half know.
Thirty-four language pairs are live, including Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Urdu, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Arabic. Every pair carries pronunciation, and the Indic pairs carry romanisation, so you are never guessing at a script you cannot read yet.
There is no signup, no card, no daily limit and no trial that expires. You can scroll vocabulary for an hour without ever seeing an account prompt. Signing in gets you one thing — the words you save are kept and come back to you later — and that is the only reason we will ever ask.
Meet words repeatedly, in context, over time — not in one sitting. Reading widely does it slowly; a graded feed does it faster because every word arrives with a definition, a pronunciation and a real sentence. Five minutes a day beats an hour on Sunday.
Learn the word attached to something: a sentence it lives in, a word origin that explains it, or a translation into a language you already think in. A word learned off a bare list has nothing to hook onto and fades within a fortnight.
Eight to ten new words a day is a pace most people sustain; thirty is a pace almost nobody does. Consistency matters far more than volume, because the words you keep are the ones you meet again a week later, not the ones you met once.
Yes, entirely. No signup, no card, no daily limit and no trial. Signing in stores the words you save so they can come back to you later, and that is the only thing an account changes.
A1 and A2 cover everyday basics, B1 and B2 cover most work and study language, C1 and C2 cover the words you meet in journalism and literature. If a level feels easy for several minutes, move up one — that is a better test than a quiz.
Yes. Thirty-four bilingual feeds run in both directions, so you can scroll English words with the meaning in your language, or your own language with the English underneath. The Indic pairs include romanisation as well as the native script.
Flashcards ask you to commit to a study session and grade yourself. A feed asks nothing — you scroll, and most cards want no input at all. Save any word you want to keep and it becomes a flashcard, so the two work together rather than competing.
Prefer a structured list to a feed? Browse our vocabulary words lists — SAT, GRE, TOEFL, IELTS and themed sets. Want to keep what you learn? Turn saved words into flashcards.
