Shakespeare Flashcards
The most frequent 1000 words of the English language.
Learn the words English actually runs on. Every card is drawn from the 1,000 highest-ranked content words in the Corpus of Contemporary American English, a one-billion-word corpus balanced across spoken English, fiction, magazines, newspapers, academic writing, TV and film subtitles, blogs and the web.
How it works
- Tap a card to flip between the word and its definition.
- Sort each word into Known or Learning with one tap.
- Swipe left to right to undo a decision you did not mean to make.
- Open either list to read every word and definition on one scrollable page.
What is on a card
- The word.
- A plain-English definition from Princeton's WordNet.
- Its part of speech: noun, verb, adjective or adverb.
- How often it occurs in the corpus, so you can see what "frequent" really means.
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Sources
Word list and frequencies come from the Corpus of Contemporary American English, compiled by Mark Davies. Definitions come from WordNet 3.0, Princeton University. Both are credited inside the app under the "?" button.