Advanced Spanish

    Master the 10,000 words that stand between you and C1

    Hit the wall after B1?

    Most classroom curricula run out of road past B1. Past 5,000 words, repetition drops below what incidental learning needs — and the 5k-to-10k stretch is where DELE C1 lives. Capuchino is built for that stretch.

    Find out exactly where your vocabulary runs out: rate about 25 words and see how far you reach among the 10,000 most frequent. The range narrows with every answer. Then get a personal list of the words worth learning next, ready for Anki.

    Take the free assessment

    No account needed. About 3 minutes.

    Example result

    Example: after 25 answers, the estimated range narrowed to about 1,400 to 6,200 of the most frequent words, with medium confidence: solid up to about 4,200, patchy to about 6,000.

    Questions answered
    25
    Your range
    1,400–6,200
    Rough level*
    ≈ B2
    Confidence
    medium

    You solidly know roughly the 1,400 to 6,200 most frequent words.

    * A rough guide, based on studies of learners of English, French and Spanish, not on the DELE.

    Your pattern: Solid up to about 4,200 · patchy from there to about 6,000 · mostly new after that.

    • Solid 1–4,200
    • Patchy 4,201–6,000
    • Mostly new 6,001–10,000

    What you can do today

    Your gaps, straight into Anki

    Capuchino estimates which of the 10,000 most frequent words you probably don’t know yet. Pick the ones you want and download a file Anki imports in one step: the word, its meaning and an example sentence. Export again any time; your cards update, they don’t duplicate.

    Find your gaps →
    Frontacantiladonoun
    Backcliff
    El faro se alza al borde del acantilado.The lighthouse stands at the edge of the cliff.
    A Capuchino card in Anki: front and back.

    Study by topic

    Cooking this week? Learning anatomy? Pick a topic, keep only the words you don’t know yet, and send them to Anki. Thirty lists are live, from the human body to politics, science and the arts.

    Browse topics →
    • The human body

      511 words

    • Food and drink

      364 words

    • Around the kitchen

      118 words

    Check any Spanish text

    Paste an article or a chapter, and see which words in it are beyond your current range, before they trip you up.

    Analyze a text →

    From a recent editorial

    El periodista descubrió que el acantilado no era simplemente metafórico. Su prosa fluía, pero ciertas palabras resbalaban sin arraigar.

    Start with three minutes

    See where your Spanish vocabulary runs out. Then turn your gaps into Anki cards, topic by topic.

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    What we’re building next.

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      Invite your teacher

      Bring your teacher or tutor in: they see your gaps and your writing, and can guide what you practice next.

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      Feedback on your writing

      Write a paragraph, and get corrections that separate real errors from style, and track the mistakes you keep making.

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      Say it in Spanish

      Test whether you can produce a word, not just recognize it: half of the DELE C1 is writing and speaking.

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      Review my guesses

      Quickly confirm or correct the words we’ve only inferred you know, so your list gets sharper every week.

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      Progress over time

      See your range move as you learn, answer by answer and week by week.

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      More topic lists

      False friends, words for argument, regional Spanish, and more.

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      Hear every word

      Native pronunciation for the words on your list.

    Build in public

    A word from the founders

    Capuchino is an early prototype, built in public. Today you can measure how far your vocabulary reaches, see your likely gaps, study thirty topic lists and export to Anki without duplicates. Plenty is still thin: no audio yet, one frequency list, self-rating only. We’re sharing it now to learn from real learners.

    “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.”

    If you're past B1 and tired of apps that teach you to introduce yourself again — you are exactly who Capuchino is for.