WORD CHARMER

The English word stress game

Every cobra is an English word. Play its rhythm to charm it back into its basket.

1The cobra rises out of its basket: one syllable per coil, top to bottom.
2Play your pungi for each coil: da is a short low note for a weak syllable, DAAA is a long high note for the strong one.
3The cobra listens. Right: it says the word properly, is charmed, gives you a heart and curls back into its basket. Wrong: it bonks you on the head and you lose a heart.

Tap it: a cobra says hello, then you hear da and DAAA. It also shows what your phone reports.

How do you say it? Look up a word

Say the rhythm out loud too: analysis is da-DAAA-da-da. When you get a word right, the cobra says it with your phone's voice.

Learn English word stress by playing

In English, one syllable of every word is stronger: longer, louder and higher. Put it in the wrong place and people hear a different word, or no word at all. Word Charmer trains your ear and your mouth to find that strong syllable.

Thousands of words, most of them everyday English (tomorrow, banana, comfortable), plus the words of work meetings (deployment, analysis).
Rules you can reuse, like "the stress goes right before -tion, -ic and -ity".
Traps for French and Arabic speakers: message, process, comfortable, pronunciation.
Two-word terms like bus stop and password, and full sentences from daily life and work, like "where is the station?" and "you're on mute".
Every word you charm joins your cobra collection. Words you miss come back until you know them, and words you know come back days later so you keep them.

Free, no account, works offline once installed. Your progress stays on your device.

Word stress data: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Word frequencies: FrequencyWords by Hermit Dave (OpenSubtitles 2018, CC BY-SA 4.0).

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