How to get the most out of WORDED
Published 2026-07-07
WORDED looks simple on purpose: a sentence, a blank, four words. But there are deliberate design decisions behind that surface, and knowing them helps you get more out of every session. This guide walks through the whole app - the quiz, the answer reveal, missed-word review, progress tracking and the word reference - and how they fit together.
The quiz: one sentence at a time
Press Start Learning and you get a sentence with one word blanked out, plus four candidates. Pick the word that completes the sentence. Words are drawn in rough frequency order, so early sessions build the high-value core first; the distractors are chosen to be plausible, so the question tests meaning rather than pattern-matching.
On a keyboard, the 1–4 keys answer directly - the quiz is designed so a session can be pure flow, no mouse required. Each word you answer correctly is added to your collection, and your overall progress through the full word list is tracked on the home screen.
Revealing the answer is a feature, not a failure
When you are unsure, guessing wildly teaches you little - and worse, it can encode a wrong association. Revealing the answer shows the completed sentence with the word in place, its meaning, and lets you hear it. That moment, reading a full example with the meaning fresh in mind, is where a lot of the actual learning happens. Treat the reveal as a normal move in the game, not a defeat.
Missed words are not discarded. They are collected into your review queue, because a documented miss at your exact level is the most valuable study material there is.
The review podcast: hear your misses in conversation
From the home screen, once you have missed words, you can generate a short two-host podcast episode built from your recently missed words. The hosts use each word naturally in conversation, so you re-encounter your personal gap list in a completely different medium from the quiz - listening instead of reading, prosody and context instead of multiple choice. A transcript is included, and you can download the audio for offline listening on a commute.
This closes the learning loop: quiz finds the gaps, podcast refills them through a second channel, and the words come back around in future quiz sessions for confirmation.
Progress, streaks and syncing
Your progress is saved automatically in your browser - no account needed to start. The home screen shows your collection progress and a heatmap of your practice days, which is deliberately streak-shaped: daily practice is the single biggest predictor of vocabulary growth. If you sign in with Google, your streak and missed words sync across devices, so a phone session on the train and a laptop session at home count as one continuous practice history. You can erase all stored records at any time from the quiz settings.
The word reference: browse, look up, deep-link
Every word in the collection also has a permanent reference page with its meaning, an example sentence, audio pronunciation, its frequency rank, and neighboring words - in English and Japanese. The full list is browsable in bands of one hundred ranks, which is a genuinely pleasant way to survey what the next stretch of your vocabulary journey looks like. Use it to look up a word you met elsewhere, or to skim a band before drilling it in the quiz.
- Start with a tiny daily commitment - ten questions - and let good days run longer.
- Reveal answers freely; read the example sentence every time.
- Generate a review podcast when a handful of misses have accumulated.
- Check the heatmap weekly, not obsessively; the goal is the vocabulary.