Millions of people across the world use Vocabulary.com to improve their vocabulary. With our latest feature, Vocabulary.com has made word learning more fun and engaging!
Introducing VocabTrainer™
VocabTrainer™ is Vocabulary.com’s newest activity to combine adaptive learning with gamification to help learners across the world boost their word knowledge. It’s the perfect daily exercise to train your brain with a word workout!
VocabTrainer™ provides personalized learning to improve vocabulary. With each question you answer, VocabTrainer™ measures your vocabulary proficiency and identifies the gaps in your word knowledge. We focus on teaching you the words you don’t know so you can master their multiple meanings in different contexts.
With the proficiency scores and progress tracking in VocabTrainer™, you can track your vocabulary growth over time and see how your word knowledge compares to other learners around the world.
How VocabTrainer™ works
Learners have answered over 7 billion questions on Vocabulary.com. These insights help us deliver personalized learning to anyone who wants to build their vocabulary.
Understanding how people learn new words helps us ensure that we’re teaching for true mastery, not memorization. Seeing which words people struggle with helps us identify common word gaps for learners at each proficiency level. With millions of users answering questions, we use this data to make our award-winning adaptive engine smarter.
With each question you answer, VocabTrainer™ evaluates your knowledge on a 20-level scale. It also identifies your trouble words and the gaps in your vocabulary knowledge.
How to play VocabTrainer™
Anyone can create a learner account with Vocabulary.com to use VocabTrainer™. Your account provides access to 10 VocabTrainer™ questions per day. To play VocabTrainer™, select Learn from the menu at the top of Vocabulary.com.
You may notice that VocabTrainer™ has replaced The Challenge for personalized, gamified word learning that adapts to the learner’s vocabulary level and unique word gaps. VocabTrainer™ features everything you enjoyed about The Challenge with updated designs and features to make your daily word learning exercises more fun and engaging.
Learner benefits from Vocabulary.com
In addition to 10 VocabTrainer™ questions per day, learner accounts on Vocabulary.com also provide access to other word learning tools.
- Complete Practice activities based on our 13,000+ curated vocabulary lists aligned to your favorite subject, seasonal themes, or the book you’re reading
- Create custom lists and flashcards to learn the words you want to know
- Chart your points, achievements, and trouble words
- Play in or host fun, competitive Vocab Jams
- Browse our Dictionary, Word of the Day, or other vocabulary resources
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Learner subscription benefits
To unlock unlimited access and all of the benefits of VocabTrainer™, purchase a subscription. With a paid learner subscription, you can:
- Access unlimited learning for over 16,000 words with 242,000 questions
- Target your word gaps with the adaptive learning in VocabTrainer™
- Get personalized reports that pinpoint your vocabulary level and track your proficiency score over time
- Move up the ranks and see how you stack up against other learners around the world