Japanese Language Proficiency Test Vocabulary Lists

There are apparently no official lists of vocabulary. These lists should only be viewed as useful tools for study.

Flash Quizzes: Multiple-choice, Matching & Flashcards

Remember that Level 4 is lower than level 3.

Level 4

Quiz on JLPT Level 4 Adjectives
This quiz includes the 85 i-adjectives and na-adjectives on Peter van der Woude's JLPT Level 4 Vocabulary List
Quiz on JLPT Level 4 All Words
This quiz includes 728 words on Peter van der Woude's JLPT Level 4 Vocabulary List

Level 3

Quiz on JLPT Level 3 Adjectives Ending with い
This quiz includes the 23 i-adjectives.
Quiz on JLPT Level 3 Adjectives (adj-na; adj-no)
This quiz includes the 47 other adjectives marked as "adj-na" or "adj-no" in EDICT.
Quiz on JLPT Level 3 Nouns (Marked only as "n")
Limited to the 275 words that appear in EDICT with only "n." (Not "n vs" etc.)
Quiz on JLPT Level 3 Nouns (n; vs)
Limited to the 61 words that appear in EDICT marked with both "n" and "vs."
Quiz on JLPT Level 3 Verbs (except for vs)
Limited to the 161 verbs that appear in EDICT NOT marked with "vs."
Quiz on JLPT Level 3 All Words
This quiz includes the 680 words on Peter van der Woude's JLPT Level 3 Vocabulary List

Linked to Jim Breen's WWWDICT (EDICT) Dictionary

These lists have direct links to the online dictionary. Perhaps some of these words will not be found.

Linked to the Dictionarist Dictionary

These lists have direct links to the online dictionary. Perhaps some of these words will not be found. Note that the audio is text-to-speech generation and not a real human voice.

Suggested Use

Go through the list and click the words that you don't know (or can't read). Then do the same with the list linking to the other dictionary.

More Commonly-Used Words - Jim Breen's WWWDICT

The following words were marked as commonly-used in EDICT (10JUN03 V03-003), but were not included on the JLPT lists. (13,163 words of 19,902 words)

About the Lists

The JLPT lists were generated using the lists found at http://www.thbz.org/kanjimots/jlpt.php3
- I eliminated the words in the upper level lists that also appeared on lower level lists.
- Then I generated the pages that link to the online dictionaries.
For the EDICT (P) Words Not on JLPT Lists, I took all the words marked as commonly-used (P) in EDICT, then eliminated all the words that appeared on the JLPT lists.

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