Learn the English words that matter to you
Wordspotting is a vocabulary app for people who already speak English. It builds your personal word list from the movies and shows you know, finds the words you don't, and ranks the ones worth learning.
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Grammar isn't your gap. Words are
You already read, watch, and listen in English every day. At your level, grammar isn't what's holding you back. The gap is words: the rare ones, the idioms, the ones that make native speech sound native.
Any show you love holds far more unfamiliar words than you expect. Finding new words was never the problem. Choosing the ones worth your time is.
That's what Wordspotting is for. It builds a word list that is yours: taken from what you actually watch, cleared of everything you already know, and ranked by rarity and by how often a word keeps coming back across your sources. Every word arrives with the sentence you met it in.
hubris
excessive pride or arrogance, especially when it leads to someone's downfall
on the q.t.
secretly, without telling others
embezzle
to secretly steal money you have been trusted to manage
dead to rights
with clear, undeniable proof of guilt
Then you learn them
Tap a word you found to see its meaning in your language, next to the sentence you met it in.
Sort each word with one tap: Know if you already have it, Learn if you want it.
The words you Learn become cards, and spaced repetition brings each one back on its own schedule until it sticks.
Goes into your reviews.
One you already have.
Your sources vote on what to learn
The more you bring in, the better this gets.
When a word turns up across several things you watch, that's not noise, it's a sign it's worth your time, so it rises to the top of your list.
Your own sources decide what you learn next.
overstep
to go beyond an acceptable limit
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Game of Thrones
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Shameless
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True Detective
Showed up in 5 of your shows.
A number that goes up
Vocabulary size isn't really what fluency is about. Real fluency is feel, instinct, the words that arrive without thinking. None of that fits in a counter. But watching a number tick up does feel good, and feeling good about words you used to not know is most of why anyone sticks with anything. So we count anyway. Your score sits in the app header. It starts with the core English we already credit you with, and grows every time you bring in something new and learn the words you didn't know.
Free to start. Pay only for new words
Importing, discovering, and reviewing are always free and unlimited. The free plan covers about 50 new words a month, plenty for a regular week of watching.
Pick a show. See your words
Free to start. Sign in with Google, pick a show you know, and see your words.