Core 10K is a collection of the 10,000 most frequent Japanese words, ranked by frequency in newspapers, books, and media. This tool randomly samples from this dataset to provide vocabulary exposure.
Simple mode samples uniformly from the first 300 words (most common). Standard mode uses weighted sampling from words 301-10,000, favoring more frequent words.
Each word includes the Japanese text, kana reading, English meaning, and an example sentence with translation. Click "Listen on YouGlish" to hear native speaker pronunciations from YouTube videos.
Data from the Core 10K Anki deck. YouGlish integration for audio examples.