Vocabulary by category
6 134 words · 152 lists · 19 topics
19 areas across 152 word lists and 6134 words. Each category can be practised as a whole — across its lists and across the levels.
The largest is “Basic words: numbers, time, verbs” with 977 words, the smallest “Economy, industry and finance” with 122. Both numbers are calculated and nowhere typed by hand.
The 19 categories
- Basic words: numbers, time, verbsNumbers, counters, time, question words, basic verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
- Greetings and polite languageSet phrases, giving and receiving, manners, polite language at work.
- People, family and feelingsFamily, friends, relationships, character, feelings.
- Home and daily lifeRooms, housework, clothes, renting, kitchen, daily routine.
- Food and drinkMeals, cooking, flavours, food culture, farming and fishing.
- Shopping, money and servicesShops, department store, post office, bank, clothes and style.
- Transport and travelTown, trains, traffic, trips, hotels, sightseeing.
- Body and healthBody parts, illness, the doctor, medicine, injuries.
- Nature, weather and environmentWeather, seasons, animals, plants, landscape, disasters.
- Free time, hobbies and sportHobbies, plans, sport, games, music, film.
- Culture, traditions and religionFestivals, customs, arts, literature, religion, family milestones.
- School, university and researchClassroom, study, exams, university, research.
- Work and jobsJobs, the office, careers, pay, meetings, business e-mails.
- Economy, industry and financeThe economy, industry, manufacturing, banks and markets.
- Politics, law and public officesWard office, forms, parliament, courts, crime, welfare, foreign affairs.
- Society, news and historyNews, the media, the press, social issues, history.
- Technology, internet and sciencePhone, internet, IT, science, data, energy.
- Opinions and abstract wordsReasons, opinions, abstract nouns, linking words, formal verbs.
- Sound words, idioms and loanwordsSound words, kanji compounds, compound verbs, idioms, katakana words.
Practise a category as a whole
Every category page has a quiz drawn from all its lists. If you would rather have the full choice — level, mode, length — you will also find the categories in the “Area” field of the practice page, each as the first entry of its group.