WordBar
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Run a café. Cook and serve. Pick up brilliant words along the way.

WordBar is a word game dressed up as a café. Customers order, recipes start cooking, and children answer word challenges as the café gets busier. Somewhere between serving customers and unlocking new decorations, outfits, customers and pets, new words start to stick. The menu includes everyday English, tricky vocabulary and 11+ words too.

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  • No sign-up needed
  • Made for children
WordBar Classic Café vocabulary challenge
Welcome to WordBar!King Aldwin
Ready for today’s word mission?Major Stella
Let’s start!Maya
WordBar corgi pet
One tap from your Home Screen

Keep WordBar one tap away.

Add WordBar to your Home Screen and open the café just like an app. Start by opening WordBar, then follow the steps for your device.

Open WordBar  →
iPhone or iPad
  1. Open WordBar in Safari.
  2. Tap the Share button.
  3. Choose Add to Home Screen.
  4. Tap Add.
Android
  1. Open WordBar in Chrome.
  2. Open the browser menu.
  3. Choose Add to home screen or Install app.
  4. Confirm Install.

Choose your device above to see the steps.

Two menus, one café

Words for everyday confidence—and 11+ practice.

Choose the vocabulary list that fits today. The café, characters and rewards stay familiar while the words change.

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Everyday English

Useful words for reading, school, conversation and everyday life—with tricky vocabulary mixed in as confidence grows.

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11+ Words

Exam-focused vocabulary, synonyms, antonyms and word relationships for children preparing for 11+ verbal reasoning.

Four ways to play

Meet the same words in different adventures.

Vocabulary is easier to remember when children see, spell and use it in more than one way.

01

Classic Café

Choose the right meaning, serve the customer and earn tips before patience runs out.

Classic Café vocabulary question
02

Word Path

Trace the missing word through a letter grid to complete a recipe step.

TRACE THE WORD
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Follow the clue through the grid
03

Word Scramble

Read the clue, rearrange the letters and rebuild the word while the dish cooks.

Word Scramble spelling challenge
04

Letter Conveyor

Catch the letters you need from the moving belt before the clock runs out.

Letter Conveyor vocabulary challenge
Come and meet the café

Friendly faces, pets and rewards gather around.

Unlock customers, café decorations, new dressing styles and playful pets as the journey grows.

King AldwinKing Aldwin
Major StellaMajor Stella
MayaMaya
Everyone’s invited.Pull up a chair and choose a word.
Corgi petRed panda petPanda petPenguin pet
🐾 Collect pets🎨 Unlock decorations👕 Try new outfits🌱 Turn new words into known words
WordBar duck petWordBar rabbit pet
Our story

A parent made WordBar for their own children—and now shares it with everyone.

WordBar began as a way to make 11+ vocabulary practice easier for my children: more playful, more encouraging and less frustrating. What started as a simple café theme grew into a whole learning journey, shaped by children who kept asking for more.

It has since become a friendlier way for any child to build English vocabulary—not only for exam preparation, but for reading, school and everyday life.

Made with families in mind

Easy to begin. Friendly to return to.

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Open and play

No account, email address or payment card is needed to begin.

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A calmer space

No chat with strangers. Children can focus on words, recipes and their café.

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Progress stays close

Game progress is stored in the browser on the device being used.

The café is open

Ready to serve your first word?

Step inside, choose a menu and let the customers show you around.

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