You learn a language.
We plant trees.
Culture and nature, grown and protected together
5 minutes a day · 16 at a time
Free to start — no account, no credit card
Built in Luxembourg
Answer. Earn pieces. Play.
Every correct answer banks 3 blocks — every 6 words you cash them in. The break between answers is the spacing effect doing its quiet work: that is how words become permanent.
- A language that sticks, in 5 minutes a day.
- 16 at a time: words, sentences, dialogues and more.
- Active recall and Blocks make them stay.
What are you learning for?
24 official exams, from citizenship tests to TOEFL, DELF and JLPT.
87 professions, each with the words you use at work.
Words, sentences, dialogues, travel phrases, proverbs and more.
What 16Word stands for
Learn scientifically
Active recall, spaced repetition and game breaks: methods tested in memory research. We publish how much our learners remember.Keep cultures alive while you learn and play
36 languages, from the largest to the smallest, with over 60,000 recordings by real people and over 6,000 proverbs and idioms, learned between games of Blocks.Plant trees while you memorise
Every 7 practices you finish plant a tree to turn dry land green, thanks to our good-hearted 16Word community.A full language in a year
16 words in 5 minutes a day is 5,840 words in a year.More than words
9 tracks, one method: sixteen at a time, active recall, and a game break between answers.
Build permanent vocabulary
Read it in yours, say it in theirs
Play your part in a scene
100 trips, what you say and hear
Say what the natives say
Idioms, in context
Fill the gap, pick the particle
Speak-only · scored by your mic
Every form of every verbLëtzebuergesch & Nederlands
Every track has a free sample. 16Word Plus opens all of it, in every language.
Seven practices, one tree
Every language you learn becomes your own mountain. A farmer and the Lingos plant a tree on it in seven steps, one for each practice you finish.
Our north-star metric, in the open
We measure what you actually remember
Most apps count lessons completed. We track recall — whether a word is still there 7, 30, and 90 days after you learn it. Here’s how 16Word is doing, live.
Active recall
Learn faster
Spaced repetition
Remember more
Dual-loop encoding
Last far longer
Certification paths
Prepare for an official language examLëtzebuergesch · A2 · B1Guide ready
Nederlands · A2 · B1Guide ready
Nederlands · B1 · B2Path ready
English · Score 1–6Path ready
English · Band 0–9Path ready
English · A2 Key → C2 ProficiencyPath ready
English · Score 10–90Path ready
Français · A1–B2Path ready
Français · C1–C2Path ready
Français · A1–C2Path ready
Français · A1–C2Path ready
Deutsch · A1–C2Path ready
Deutsch · B2–C1Path ready
Deutsch · A1–C2Path ready
Español · A1–C2Path ready
Italiano · A1–C2Path ready
Português · A1–C2Path ready
中文 · HSK 1–9Path ready
日本語 · N5 → N1Path ready
한국어 · Levels 1–6Path ready
Suomi · Levels 1–6Path ready
Ελληνικά · A1–C2Path ready
Polski · A1–C2Path ready
Türkçe · A1–C1Path ready
Job paths
The words of your professionReady to remember words for good?
Finish your first 16 words in under 5 minutes.
Free to start — no account, no credit card
36 languages, learnable from any of the others
🇬🇧 English🇫🇷 French🇩🇪 German🇪🇸 Spanish🇮🇹 Italian🇹🇷 Turkish🇮🇷 Persian🇨🇳 Chinese🇯🇵 Japanese🇱🇺 Luxembourgish🇸🇦 Arabic🇵🇹 Portuguese🇷🇺 Russian🇦🇿 Azerbaijani🇺🇦 Ukrainian🏛️ Latin🇮🇱 Hebrew🇮🇳 Hindi🇳🇱 Dutch🇮🇸 Icelandic🇷🇴 Romanian🇵🇱 Polish🇫🇮 Finnish🇸🇪 Swedish🇬🇷 Greek🇰🇷 Korean🇵🇰 Urdu🇱🇹 Lithuanian🇨🇿 Czech🇷🇸 Serbian🇬🇪 Georgian🇸🇴 Somali🗣️ Kurdish (Kurmanji)🗣️ Kurdish (Sorani)🗣️ Pashto🗣️ Tigrinya