GRE words sorted by frequency.
A study order that tells you exactly which words earn your attention first — each one backed by a meaning, a real sentence, and a memory hook.
A frequency count, not a guess
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Count the overlap
Deep research on GRE-style vocabulary compilations. A word's tier number is how many of those source lists it showed up in.
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Study top-down
Tier 6 words appeared in most of those lists — they're the words you genuinely cannot afford to skip. Work your way down from there.
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Fill the gaps
The Tier 1 pool held from lower-frequency words. We hand-picked 274 that still show up constantly on real GRE prep material, so nothing useful gets left in the drawer.
Studying vocabulary shouldn't feel like memorizing a phone book
Every card in every deck follows the same five-part structure, so your eyes learn where to look and your brain does less work finding the information — and more work keeping it.
Meaning, in plain English
No circular dictionary definitions. Each word is explained the way you'd explain it to a friend.
A real sentence, every time
Seeing a word used in context sticks far better than seeing it in isolation — so every entry gets one.
A memory hook, not a hope
Every single word has a hand-built mnemonic — a sound-alike, a root breakdown, or a mental image — so recall doesn't rely on rote repetition alone.
Search built into every deck
Jump straight to a word or meaning instead of scrolling. Handy for quick review the night before your test.
Priority, not overwhelm
Instead of one flat list of 1,400+ words, you always know which tier deserves your next twenty minutes.
Built for phones and breaks
Each card is small enough to review in a spare five minutes — on a bus, in a queue, between classes.
Open a drawer
Start at Tier 6 if you're short on time — it's the smallest deck and the highest-yield. Work down through the tiers as your exam date allows.
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The Essentials
Words that showed up in most of the single source list. The highest-yield twenty minutes you can spend before test day.
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Near-Universal
One tier down from essential — still appearing across almost every major list you'll find.
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Very Common
The backbone of most GRE reading passages and text-completion questions.
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Frequently Seen
Where most students start finding gaps — a wider net that catches the words that trip people up.
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Broad Coverage
The largest deck in the catalog. Built-in search makes this one genuinely usable as a reference, not just a slog.
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Curated Extras
Hand-selected from lower-frequency words — the ones from that pool still worth knowing cold.
Not another word-of-the-day list
Why this is different
- Frequency across sources, not one author's opinion. Tiers come from counting overlap across multiple real vocabulary compilations, not a single editor's taste.
- A mnemonic for every word — no exceptions. Not just the "fun" ones. All 1,424 entries got a hand-built memory hook.
- One consistent format, six decks. Learn the layout once on Tier 6 and every other deck already feels familiar.
- No account, no paywall, no ads. Open a deck and start — nothing stands between you and the words.
Continually updated
- More than 274 lower-frequency words have been curated so far — more batches get added as they're built and reviewed.
- Mnemonics get refined over time as weaker memory hooks are swapped for sharper ones.
- New decks are versioned, not replaced. If a tier grows, you'll see the word count on its card change — nothing disappears from under you.
- Built from real usage patterns, so the catalog can keep expanding as more source material gets reviewed.