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Vocabulary for well-read adults

Words worth keeping.

You already know the easy words. Nomi starts after them: five minutes a day of words you don't know yet, proof that you remember them, and a daily word puzzle.

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Today's word · Tuesday 3 November Do you know métier?

/ˈmetieɪ/ noun Pick its meaning.

A new word at midnight, UK time.

Right. That's what métier means.

Not quite. The right meaning has the tick.

More on métier
Nomi's Today screen: the word of the day, laconic, with its pronunciation and meaning, then your five minutes: a new word, reviews and a game.

  • Yesterday's word

    untutored /ʌnˈtjuːtəd/

    Without formal teaching or training, and so naive or unsophisticated; sometimes implying a natural, untaught gift.

  • Sunday's word

    contrived /kənˈtraɪvd/

    Deliberately arranged rather than arising naturally, so that it seems artificial or forced.

  • Saturday's word

    forfend /fɔːˈfend/

    To prevent or forbid; now used almost only in the mock-solemn exclamation 'heaven forfend'.

Your five minutes

One new word, a few reviews, one game.

  1. About a minute

    A word you don't know

    Its meaning, how it's said, three sentences that use it, and where it comes from.

  2. About two minutes

    Reviews, on time

    The words you're learning come back as they start to fade, so they stay.

  3. About two minutes

    One short game

    Kindred, Inkling, Verdict or Unravel, played with the words you're learning.

Why Nomi

It starts where other apps stop.

Nomi finds out what you already know, teaches only what you don't, and shows you it's working.

Placement Free

Start where you already are.

Three short rounds: tap the words you know. Nomi estimates how many words you have, sets your level and skips the ones you've already got. The result is yours, free.

An estimate, not a score.

The placement result: about 12,000 to 15,000 words, level 3, Well-read, with the words Nomi will start on and the ones it will skip.

The memory curve Pro

Proof you remember.

The memory curve shows how many of your words you'd recall today, with Nomi and without: the same words, met once and never reviewed. The gap between the two lines is what your five minutes bought.

The memory curve is part of Nomi Pro.

Progress over a month: you'd recall 109 of the 114 words you've met with Nomi, against 77 without.

2,217 words

Written for readers, in British English.

Every word comes with British spelling and pronunciation, three example sentences that read like real writing, words like it and unlike it, and the story of where it came from. Tap it to hear it said.

The word page for laconic: its pronunciation, two meanings, sentences that use it, similar and opposite words, and its origin in Greek Lakōnikos, of Laconia.

Fair play

Nothing to put up with.

  • ads
  • pay-to-win
  • fake countdowns
  • guilt trips
  • a paywall you can't close

Weekly leagues count the same 150 XP a day for everyone, and the curios Nomi wears are earned, never sold. The paywall closes, Restore purchases is always on it, and a free trial comes with a reminder two days before you're billed.

Nomi's paywall: what Pro adds, the annual, monthly and lifetime plans at UK prices, the free trial's timeline, and a close button at the top.
The whole paywall. The cross at the top closes it.

Daily puzzles Free every day

Two puzzles a day, for everyone.

Daily Kindred hides four families in sixteen words. Daily Inkling gives you a meaning and six tries to find the word. Everyone plays the same two each day, free, and the leaderboards show how the day went.

Daily Kindred: sixteen words with one family found, ways to say brief: laconic, terse, pithy and curt.
Inkling: the clue, using very few words, brief to the point of seeming curt, three guesses in.

Prices

Free to start. Pro when you want more.

UK prices. The App Store or Google Play shows the price where you live before you pay. A subscription renews until you cancel it in your App Store or Google Play settings; deleting the app doesn't cancel it.

Free

£0, for as long as you like

  • The word of the day
  • Your daily session, with up to 15 reviews
  • One game a day
  • Up to 100 words
  • Your placement result
  • Daily Kindred and Daily Inkling
  • Weekly leagues and leaderboards

Nomi Pro

Everything in Free, and:

  • Unlimited words and reviews
  • All four games, unlimited
  • Unravel Freeplay, every day
  • Memory curve: with Nomi and without
  • Nomi checks your sentences
  • Annual 7 days free£24.99/year · £2.08/month
  • Monthly£4.99/month
  • Lifetime£59.99 once
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Five minutes a day is enough.

One new word, the reviews that keep it, and a game. On iPhone and Android.

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