Word sets: skip names, places & common words
Subscribe to a curated set to count thousands of words as known at once, without creating a single card.
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Characters names, place names and particles that you know for sure but never bothered adding to a deck can be present hundreds of times in decks, dragging your coverage down from what it should be. Word sets are an easy way to deal with those in a simple click.
Available word sets
Go to Settings and open the Word Sets. Here's the different sets available:
| Set | Size | What is in it |
|---|---|---|
| Particles & Common Grammar | ~400 words | Particles and the grammar words that hold sentences together, recommended unless you're a total beginner |
| Kaishi 1.5k | ~1500 words | The vocabulary from the Kaishi 1.5k starter deck, recommended unless you're a total beginner |
| Names | 300k+ words | Every kind of name at once, and broader than the three sets below put together |
| People | 50k+ words | Names of people, like Shinzo Abe or Suzuki Airi |
| Places names | 200k+ words | Place names, like Minato Ward or Tokyo |
| Other names | 10k+ words | Companies, organisations, groups, products |
| Onomatopoeia | ~1300 words | All onomatopoeia |
| Counters | ~250 words | All counters |
Each card also shows a form count, which is higher than the word count because most words are written more than one way. Press Vocabulary on any set to read through exactly what is inside before you choose.
Blacklist or Mark as Mastered
Pick one of the two from the dropdown on the set's card, then press Subscribe.
Both count every word in the set towards your coverage, and neither will ever turn a word into a card for you to study. So the choice is purely personal, depending on how you want to consider the words:
- Mark as Mastered for words you genuinely know. These also fill in your kanji grid and show on your public profile.
- Blacklist for everything you are happy to never see again. Names are the obvious case as they can affect your coverage a lot. These stay out of your kanji grid and off your profile.
If two sets you subscribe to contain the same word, it counts as Mastered.
A set only covers words you have no card for. If you already have a card for a word, even if you've only reviewed it once, the set does not count it towards your coverage.
Changing your mind
You can Unsubscribe from a set at any moment. It doesn't affect your existing cards in any way.
To swap a set from Blacklist to Mark as Mastered or back, unsubscribe first, then subscribe again with the other option.
Recommended if you already have some experience with Japanese: Mark as Mastered for Particles & Common Grammar oand Kaishi 1.5k, Blacklist the Names ones unless you plan to study them, then import your known words from whatever you were using before.