Free practice · Reading level
Paste some German to see the course level of every word in it. Your text stays in your browser.
Checked against more than 16,000 course words and their forms, across 200 levels. Your text stays in your browser. No account needed.
Under the hood
Each word is looked up once, in your browser. The levels are Wortplay’s course levels, in the order it teaches words; they are not CEFR levels. What the CEFR levels mean.
The course’s words are listed with their forms: plurals and case endings, each verb’s present, past and participle, and each adjective’s endings and comparison. Werkzeuge is Werkzeug, benutzt is benutzen. A few rules catch forms the list misses.
A separable verb is found across its clause: in Ich stehe früh auf, the words stehe and auf are aufstehen. A compound the course does not list counts as its parts, at the later level of the two, so Kuhstall needs Kuh and Stall.
Every word counts each time it appears, so a word used five times counts five times. Names and words the course does not have are listed apart and count as unknown at every level. Numbers and punctuation are left out. Articles, pronouns and the other grammar words count from Level 0, and where a word could be two cards, the earlier one is taken.
Studies of reading in a second language, most of them on English, put reading with some help at about 95% of the running words known and comfortable reading at about 98%. A level here is where the course teaches a word; the grammar around it is yours to bring. How levels work.
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The checker tells you which words stand between you and a text. The course teaches them in this order, a few at a time, and brings each back until it sticks.
The words, forms and levels come from the Wortplay course, whose vocabulary draws on the Ding dictionary and on frequency data from wordfreq. About the sources.
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