Today, we're excited to announce some significant improvements to our dictionary pages.
As you know, when you play Vocabulary.com, we build a model of your vocabulary knowledge that helps us predict which words you know and which words you need to learn. Today, we are releasing an update that shares a little more of that knowledge with you. Now, when you look up a word in our dictionary, you'll see our estimate of the chances that you know the word.
Also, when you press the "Random Word" button in the dictionary, we'll target words aimed at your level - not too easy and not too hard — words that we think are right at the edge of your vocabulary knowledge. See a word you’d like to get to know better? Click that big green button and we’ll start working with you on it right away.
Once you've decided to learn a word, we've improved the progress information you'll see as you start to master it. In addition to your progress towards mastery, we'll show you why you are learning the word. For example, you may be learning a word if it's in a list you are learning, if you elected to learn it individually, or if it’s a word we think you're having trouble with.
If you didn't elect to learn a word, we give you the option to fine-tune your learning and focus more on that particular word.
Hover over the green and red dots in the progress display and you can see all the past questions you've taken on the word, including the answers you picked. Questions are sorted by date, and you can click the calendar icon on the left to see the questions expand into a nifty timeline view.
We've also added a new (and much requested) "Share It" button that lets you share any dictionary page on your favorite social media service.
We hope you like using these new features. We're looking forward to launching lots of exciting improvements to Vocabulary.com in the new year! Rock on, word learners!
