Turn Any Short Text Into a Vocabulary Drill
The fastest vocabulary is the vocabulary you're already meeting in real text — you just need it pulled out and drilled. This takes a short article or conversation, finds the words that carry the passage, blanks them back out of their own sentences, and hands you a self-quiz. Local only, so you can paste anything from a news blurb to a chat.
- Drill
- Word list + cloze blanks + self-quiz, built from your text
- local
- What it replaces
- A generic flashcard deck that ignores your reading
- $0.00
- Input
- A short article or conversation in the target language
- no card
- Output
- The load-bearing words, blanked and quizzed
- recomputed
What you pay otherwise
| Route | What you get | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Vocabulary app | Spaced repetition, but a word list you didn't choose | $8–13/mo |
| Phrasebook | Static lists, no context from your reading | $15 |
| Highlighting as you read | Words get marked, never drilled | no recall |
| This page | A drill built from the text you picked | $0 |
The workflow
Paste a short text you actually want to read
A news paragraph, a song verse, a text exchange — 50 to 150 words is ideal. The drill inherits your interest: you're quizzing words you already have a reason to know.
Read the word list in sentence context
Every word is shown inside the sentence it came from. The context is the memory hook — the word isn't floating alone, it's sitting where you met it.
Do the cloze quiz before you peek
The tool blanks the target words back out of their own sentences. Write the answer from memory, then reveal. Guessing first is the step that turns reading into learning.
Re-paste new text every few days
The drill is meant to be rebuilt from fresh material, not hoarded. New text, new words, and the old ones keep showing up naturally — which is exactly what spaced practice is.
Worked example
Sample: a 60-word Spanish news snippet Text ~60 words Drilled words 6 Cloze blanks 6 (one per drilled word) Self-quiz fill the blank, then reveal Uploaded nothing — built in the tab
Numbers above are sample data produced by the tool's own pre-loaded example, run in the browser — not averages or measured benchmarks.
What breaks this
Pasting a whole novel buries the drill in a thousand words — keep it short so the load-bearing words stay load-bearing. Text in a language you don't read at all gives a drill with no context to hang on; pick something you can mostly follow. Skipping the recall step and just revealing every blank turns the quiz into reading — write first, then check.
Try it now
A short Spanish news snippet is loaded and drilled. Paste your own text and watch the drill rebuild from it.
Open the drill builder →Go deeper: the word bank
The drill is free forever. The $4 one-time tier adds:
- Printable drill sheet — word list and cloze quiz on one sheet — estimate: ~10 min saved versus copying by hand for a study session.
- Saved word bank — keep up to 30 drills in this browser — estimate: ~12 min saved per week of re-pasting the same text.
- Answer key export — the filled-in quiz as a clean reference — estimate: ~6 min saved per self-mark.