Vocabulary Test

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Pick a word from one of the 25 frequency bands, or type in your own.

What does “band” mean?

The 25,000 most common English word families, ranked by real-world frequency and split into 25 bands of 1,000 — band 1 (1k) is the most common words in the language, band 25 (25k) the rarest. Your test score is the band your vocabulary reaches, so browsing and learning words in higher bands is direct practice for pushing that score up.

Click to toggle a band, or click and drag across several to select (or deselect) them all at once.

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