Last updated: March 2025
How WizWord Works
WizWord is built around a simple idea: words only stick when you actually use them. Every part of the app is designed to help words move from the page into real conversation.
In short
Parents add words to a shared word bank. Children practise with an AI coach each day. Family members spot and reward each other's real-life word use. The whole family tracks progress together. Words that need more work come back more often. When a word has been used correctly ten times, it is mastered.
Start with a shared word bank
Parents open the word bank and add any word the family never uses in everyday speech. Words from novels, documentaries, podcasts, or conversations where you had to stop and look something up. Add a short definition and an example sentence. That takes about 30 seconds per word.
The shared word bank is the foundation. Everyone in the family can see the words and their progress. No preset lists - every word is one you have chosen because it feels worth knowing.
Family Word Bank
7 active words
Daily AI practice sessions
Your child opens WizWord and uses their words in real sentences. The AI acts as a patient coach, not a quiz machine. It gives a prompt, your child responds with a sentence using the word, and the AI evaluates whether the word was used correctly and meaningfully.
Feedback is specific: not just 'correct' or 'wrong', but an explanation of why the sentence worked, and often a follow-up that stretches the child a little further. Every correct use is tracked. Ten correct uses and the word is mastered.
AI Practice
Today's word: Meticulous
Spot words in real life
When someone in the family uses a vocabulary word naturally in conversation - at dinner, on a walk, during homework help, anywhere - they or a parent can log it as a real-life word spotting moment.
This is the feature that makes WizWord different from any other vocabulary app. Practice in the app matters. But the moment a child uses 'meticulous' to describe how they folded their clothes, unprompted, that word is theirs. WizWord helps you notice and reward those moments.
Word Spotted!
Log a real-life vocabulary moment
Words resurface at the right time
WizWord tracks how often each word has been practised and used, and surfaces words that need more attention more often. Words that are close to mastery but haven't appeared recently are brought back into rotation.
This mirrors the spaced repetition technique that memory researchers have consistently shown to be more effective than single-exposure learning. The interval between reviews matters as much as the reviews themselves.
Words needing practice
Based on recent activity
Tenacious
Last practised: 6 days ago
Persevere
Last practised: 3 days ago
Eloquent
Last practised: Yesterday
Challenge each other
When you have five minutes together, launch a Vocabulary Duel. A word from your shared bank appears on screen. Both parent and child write a sentence using that word. The AI evaluates both sentences and picks a winner.
Because these are words neither of you normally uses at home, there is no home advantage. Parents and children are genuinely on the same footing, which makes losing feel fair and winning feel earned.
⚔️ Vocabulary Duel
Round 1 of 3
Today's word
Eloquent
expressing ideas clearly and effectively
Parent
"She gave an eloquent speech about why homework should be banned."
Child
"The new student was eloquent when explaining her idea, even though she was nervous."
🏆 Child wins this round!
Track family progress together
Parents can see the full picture: which words are close to mastered, which need more attention, how many real-life uses have been logged, and which words are appearing in actual conversation.
Progress is visible to everyone in the family, not just the child. That shared visibility is part of what makes the habit sustainable - you can both see that it is working.
Family Progress
This week
3
Words mastered
12
Real-life uses
5
Days practiced
Words in real conversation this week
See how it works in practice
Start with one word and you will understand the whole system within your first session.
Ready to see it in action?
Add your first word and your child can start practising within minutes.