About

PERAPERA is the free companion to the Pera Pera section of Nihongoism, Bob Myers's newsletter on the Japanese language.

Before you start

PERAPERA writes every word in kana only, so we recommend mastering hiragana and katakana before using it. Search still takes romaji.

Sources

Word list seeded from JMdict, © the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used under its license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Frequency ranks from JMdict priority tags and the NINJAL BCCWJ frequency list.