Community reviews for Vocabulary.com

Good teaching tool but beware of complete absence in system support. Nobody comes to help if you encounter a problem with the website.

I love that I can have students practice vocabulary without note-taking and flashcards. I really appreciate the ease of having pre-made vocabulary list available and the option to edit those premade lists or create my own. The students enjoy Vocabulary.com and think it is a game, while it is tracking their mastery. I am able to see the data of every student in my class and every word in the list, meaning I can watch their progress and decide which vocab words I need to spend extra time on in class. There are a few different options for how to assign the words to the students; practice, quiz, spelling-bee, and vocabulary jam. I have only used the practice and quiz options so far, and I am happy with them. The quiz feature is a little bugged, and once a student leaves the quiz or even refreshes the page, Vocabulary.com ends the quiz for that student and they are unable to return. There is no pause option or ability to finish the quiz at a later time, which I dislike. I also wish that navigating the site was a bit more user-friendly, but overall, I feel my students are benefiting from Vocabulary.com. The weekly progress report to my email is cool, and I see that my students are widening their vocabulary. I cannot wait to see what a full year if using Vocabulary. com will look like in my students.

The website is OK but the app is the most foolish way of wasting time, money and energy I've ever seen in this field. It will infuse new random words in the list of words you are learning. This is very annoying and totally ruining the pleasant experience of recalling the words you've been adding to the learning list till now. The worst thing is that there is no option to turn this stupid feature off! You can't even skip those stupid words. It could be such a perfect match to the website without this. Such a shame this has ruined every thing.

Very few people LOVE studying new vocabulary words, so vocabulary.com does the wondrous job of making it a bit more fun and a lot more efficient. Creating lists and sharing them makes teacher work way more effective as well. When I was teaching The Giver, for example, I found a great, thorough list that pulled words directly from the novel. It deepened understanding of the book for all students. For those students needing greater challenge, there are advanced lists. I have had students use lists to help them prepare for applying to private schools (SSAT lists). For students who are new to English, you can offer them high frequency word lists so that they can build basic comprehension more quickly. Again, vocabulary learning is not glamorous, but it's a big part of building literacy. Vocabulary.com makes that task quite a bit better.

It did start with some pretty tough vocabulary, but its intuitive and learns what level the student needs to grow.

I love this website! Students do a brief assessment when they first join and are provided with vocabulary words at their level. Everyone from my lowest literacy students to my advanced students is provided with challenging vocabulary and the opportunity for success. When a student answers a question incorrectly, that word is reintroduced at a later time. Students do need email to sign up, which may be a concern for some teachers. I wish there was a way to track student progress.