Paroletta

One Italian word a day. You type guesses, the hints arrive in a fixed ladder (a gloss, then the word blanked out of a real sentence, then a letter), and there is a written question, la domanda, for anyone who wants to use the word rather than just find it. It takes about thirty seconds. When you finish you get a result grid you can paste into a group chat.

The reason it is built this way is that every typed guess is evidence. A right guess says you can produce the word. A wrong guess is worth more: it names a word you can produce, a word you were reaching for, and the gap between them, all in one keystroke. That is the whole idea behind Paroletta, Salotto, and Filotto. They measure what you know as a byproduct of play, and then spend that knowledge on making the next thing you read the right difficulty. Nothing here is a test anyone signed up for.

Two more modes are built and currently dark, waiting on the Google Play review before they launch on all three platforms at once. Categorie is sixteen words that sort into four groups, where the wrong groupings say as much as the right ones. Vocabolario is about a hundred calls of real word or invented word, and three minutes later you have a rough count of how many Italian words you know.