Vocabulary

The Vocabulary tool teaches you words while you type. Install a pack (the Word Smart and Barron's GRE lists come first), and when you type a plain word that one of the pack's words says better, a chip on the suggestion strip offers it: hate → abhor. Tap the chip for the word's card: its meaning, how to say it, where it comes from, and the words around it. Hold the chip to swap the word in. The same packs feed flashcards, in the keyboard and in the app, and a word of the day.

Getting a pack

Open Tools / Vocabulary / Vocabulary packs and download a list: Word Smart 1 and 2, Barron's 333, 800 and 1100, Magoosh 1000, Kaplan 900, Powerscore 700, SparkNotes 1000, Manhattan Prep 1000 and GregMat 1100. Each pack is a study list turned into a small dictionary: for every word, the part of speech, pronunciation in American and British English, up to three senses with an example sentence and dated quotations, synonyms and antonyms, the word family, the etymology, and a mnemonic. Definitions come from Wiktionary, with WordNet filling any gaps.

Packs also come from add-on repositories (type vocabulary), from a .wmvocab.json file opened in a file manager (gzipped or not), or from your own lists (see below). Several packs can be on at once; a word that appears in more than one shows every list it belongs to on its card.

Translations are separate, small downloads per pack and language. The languages your keyboard is set to are fetched on their own when a pack lands or when you add a language (a romanised layout such as Banglish reads the Bangla glosses; a Croatian keyboard takes the Serbo-Croatian sidecar when a pack has no closer one), and you can pick others under Translation languages on the tool's page. The full list of a pack's languages folds out under it on the packs screen. Every gloss in another script carries a romanisation, so the card can show "ghrina" beside ঘৃণা.

Tools / Vocabulary / Browse words lists every word across your installed packs, searched by word or definition. Chips filter it to one pack or to all of them, and to All, New, Learning or Learnt; tap a word for its card, and a check mark shows the ones you have learnt.

The nudge

The chip appears once you have typed the whole word, stays through the space or full stop after it, and goes away when you start the next word. It only ever offers; nothing is changed until you tap or hold.

Setting	What it does
Offer stronger words	Turns the nudge on. Off, the chip and every other row below it disappear
Tapping the chip	Opens the card, or swaps the word. Holding does the other one
Also for the words themselves	Typing abhor offers its card, so you can check a word you half remember
Which words nudge	Words you have not learnt (the default), every word, or only words you have learnt, as practice
Sensitivity	How much plainer the typed word has to be. Low nudges on "hate" but not on "detest"
Repeat a nudge	Every time, once per text field, or once a day

Nudges run last among the smart chips: a sum, a currency, "define hate", and a tool keyword all win over one.

A gloss in one of your languages nudges too: type ঘৃণা on a Bangla layout, or "ghrina" on the romanised one, and the chip offers abhor. A gloss of more than one word ("হেয় করা") is matched as a phrase.

The card

The headword, its pronunciation and a speaker button come first, with the parts of speech, the lists the word is in and how far along you are as small tags. The recording is Wiktionary's when it has one and the network allows; otherwise the phone's speech synthesiser says the word, in the accent you chose. Speech speed and pitch sliders tune the synthesiser, and disappear once Voice is pinned to the Wiktionary recording alone; Play a sample speaks serendipity to try the current voice, accent, speed and pitch together. In the app the rest is one section at a time: Meaning (senses grouped by part of speech, each with its example; quotations from print open on a tap, each with its year and a trimmed reference), Related words, the mnemonic set apart under Remember it, In your languages for the translations (each gloss with its own romanisation beside it; a language you downloaded by hand shows even when it is not one of yours), and Where it comes from with the origin chain up front and the etymology folded behind it. In the app, tapping a related word opens its own page when it is in a pack; any other is looked up online and shown in a sheet, from which it can go into My words. In the keyboard, a related word that is in a pack opens its card and one that is not is typed; holding always types it. Tools / Vocabulary / Tapping a synonym or antonym can change this, so a tap always types the word instead, or sends it to the Dictionary tool. The Full dictionary action hands the word to the Dictionary tool.

Every section of the card can be shown in the keyboard and the app, in the app only, or not at all, under Tools / Vocabulary / Card sections. The word family, the broader and narrower words, topics, etymology, origin chain, quotations from print, rhymes, hyphenation, forms, the Proto-Indo-European root, the Wikipedia link and when the word was first used are in the app only by default; the mnemonic and translations are everywhere.

Learning

Mark a word Learnt from its card and it stops nudging. The Review tab (in the keyboard) and the Review screen (in the app) run flashcards over everything due today, plus new words up to the count set by Tools / Vocabulary / New words a day (10 by default): read the word, flip, grade yourself. Two schedulers are offered under Tools / Vocabulary / Flashcards: five Leitner boxes with gaps of 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 days, or SM-2, the rule Anki uses. Both write the same record, so switching keeps your progress. Once today's queue is done, or there was nothing due to start with, a Study ahead row lets you pull tomorrow's cards in early.

The word of the day is the same for everyone who has the same packs: the words are laid out in a fixed order and each day takes the next, so every word comes round once before any repeats, and a device that has learnt the day's word moves on to the next unlearnt one. It shows as a card on the settings home and as a chip on the suggestion strip. The chip comes back in a few text fields spread over the day (how many is a setting) until you tap it or dismiss it. The card's X puts it away until the next word. Under Tools / Vocabulary / Word of the day you can turn either off, or have a new word every 12, 6 or 3 hours, or every hour.

Your own lists

Tools / Vocabulary / My lists shows every list you have made, each with its own switch, and a New list button. Name a new list to open its editor: type a word and the details fill in from an installed pack when one knows it, or from the network when you tap Look up online: Wiktionary's full entry (through kaikki.org, the same source the packs are built from), with the free dictionary API and Wiktionary's own definition endpoint as fallbacks when it is down. A look-up is one tap and a few kilobytes, so it is not held back by Data saver. Add many words takes a pasted list, one word per line. Add to my list on any card files the word into a list called My words, and the Dictionary panel has the same chip.

A list exports as a .wmvocab.json file, the same format the packs use, so it can be shared, opened on another phone, or published in an add-on repository. Lists and imported packs travel in backups; downloaded packs do not, since they can be downloaded again.

Privacy

Everything here runs on the phone: the packs, the index that finds triggers while you type, and your learning record. The only network requests are the ones you start or set up: downloading a pack, the translations for the languages you set (fetched on their own only when Data saver allows downloads outright), a look-up you tap for in the list editor, and playing a Wiktionary recording.