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Daily reviews
How spaced repetition picks the words that come back each day, and how each answer changes when you'll see a word again.
Every word you study comes back for review, timed for the moment you’re about to forget it. Each time you get it right, the gap grows: a day, a few days, weeks, then months. That’s spaced repetition, and it’s why a few minutes a day is enough.
Start today’s review
- Today’s reviews, and about how long they’ll take.
- The first few words up.
- Start today’s review begins straight away.
Each day’s review has a goal: 30 words unless you change it in Account → Daily review goal (20, 30, 50 or 100). The words you’re closest to forgetting come first, then the most common ones. Once you’ve done the day’s share, Home says Done for today; if more are due, Keep going takes 30 more, but they can wait. A word reviewed a few days late still counts, and if you remember it, it stays away even longer next time.
After a few days away, Home says so and spreads the catch-up over the coming days, a day’s goal at a time.
The review mixes words from every batch, deck and drill you’ve studied. Each comes up on its own (not in a form or a sentence), in whichever direction is most overdue. It uses the same card as a study session, with the word bank.
See what’s coming
On Insights, Reviews coming up shows how many words come due each day for the next week.
- Today, then each of the next six days.
- Start today’s review from here too.
The weekly view helps you plan: missing a day just means more due the next day, never lost progress.
How each answer counts
| Your answer | What happens |
|---|---|
| Right, word bank hidden | The word comes back after a longer gap |
| Right with the bank showing, or right except for an accent | Counted as hard: it comes back sooner |
| Wrong, or Show answer | It comes back soon, and its gap starts small again |
Answers to the same word less than an hour apart count as one review, graded by the worst of them, so studying a word several times in one sitting doesn’t push it far into the future.
The app aims for a 90% chance that you still remember each word when it comes back. A word’s page shows its memory curve and when it’s next due: see Your words.