WordySpot: English Vocabulary Finder

Scans visible page text locally to find English words you may want to learn, explain them, and save them to your WordySpot lists.

Learn English vocabulary from the pages you already read. You know the moment. A word you half-recognise, in the middle of a paragraph you are enjoying. You guess it from context, keep reading, and by the end of the page it is gone. WordySpot catches those words while you read, so you still have them afterwards. It marks the English words on a page that are likely new to you — judged against your own vocabulary level and the words you have already saved, not a fixed beginner list. Click one to see what it means and hear how it sounds, without leaving the page. Save the ones worth keeping, and they are waiting in your lists on wordyspot.com when you sit down to review. WHO IT IS FOR Intermediate and advanced learners who would rather build vocabulary out of real reading — articles, papers, fiction, documentation — than drill someone else's flashcard deck. If you are near the beginning of English, this is not the right tool yet. I would rather tell you here than take your time. HOW IT WORKS • Open a page and WordySpot marks the words worth a second look. Pages get quieter as you go: anything you mark as known stops being highlighted. • Click a word for its meaning. Press play to hear it. • Save a word to a list — Known, Learning, Ignore, or lists you make yourself. It syncs to your account, so it is there in your other browsers too. • Only visible text is read. Text the page hides, collapsed sections, and anything hidden from screen readers are left alone. • Very long pages stop at a processing limit so they stay responsive. When that happens WordySpot says the page was read in part, rather than quietly showing you half a count. • Rescan page picks up anything that loaded after you arrived. • A dictionary ships inside the extension, so working out which words are new to you happens on your own machine. You can browse that dictionary on its own, by spelling, popularity or first letter. HOW IT LOOKS • The button on the page is yours: Off, Quiet, or Always visible, in Plain or Glass. On a computer it starts Off — the toolbar button or Alt+Shift+W opens the panel, and nothing sits on top of what you are reading. On a touch device it starts Quiet, because there the toolbar is buried in a menu. • It never brings a colour of its own to someone else's website. It borrows a light or dark shade from the page behind it. • The reading panel follows each website's own theme, or you can keep Light or Dark for that site. • Choose which side it sits on and how far down, with a live preview on wordyspot.com/extension. • Decide where WordySpot runs: turn it off on a site, or let it run only on the sites you pick. There is a tester, so you can check a rule before you rely on it. ABOUT PRIVACY The page you are reading stays in your browser. WordySpot does not upload page text, page addresses, or your browsing history, and deciding which words are new to you needs no network request at all. A single word leaves your browser only when you ask for its definition, ask to hear it, or save it — and pronunciation requests carry no cookies and do not reveal which page you were on. Your lists, saved words, vocabulary level, and the site rules you type sync with your WordySpot account. How the button looks, and any theme you keep for a particular site, stay in this browser. The extension does not run in private windows. GETTING STARTED Install the extension, then open https://wordyspot.com/extension and sign in to connect your account. Use that page to adjust this browser's button if you want to. If your browser has withheld access to websites, the extension's options page will walk you through restoring it.