MagiWords

Learn words as you read

MagiWords highlights every word on a page by how well you know it, saves the ones you want with the sentence you met them in, and brings them back when you are about to forget.

Coming to the Chrome Web Store How it works
Screens have become ubiquitous in modern life. What was once a cumbersome ritual — finding a dictionary, copying a word into a notebook — has been replaced by a tap we forget immediately. The convenience is tangible, but the learning is ephemeral.
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How it works

  1. Press Alt+Shift+M on any article A thin coloured underline appears under words worth noticing. Nothing else on the page moves.
  2. Click a word to keep it MagiWords stores the word, its base form, its definition and meaning, and the exact sentence you found it in.
  3. Review when it counts Short quizzes built from your own reading. Every answer moves that word's familiarity score, and spaced repetition decides when you see it next — sooner if it is shaky, further apart as it sticks.

Why the sentence matters

A definition tells you what a word means. The sentence you actually met it in is what makes it stick — so MagiWords keeps that sentence and quizzes you on it, instead of asking you to memorise a list detached from anything you read.

It also understands word forms: run, running and ran are one entry in your vocabulary, not three.

Your data stays yours

No account, no server, no analytics. Your words, scores and settings live in your own browser and are never sent anywhere.

MagiWords asks for no access to any website when you install it — it can read a page only at the moment you invoke it, and only that tab. If you leave dictionary lookup on, the single word is sent to fetch its meaning; never the sentence, never the page you were reading. You can switch that off and it works entirely offline.

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