here is another post on the freaking annoyingnessednessness of this site for you to chew on.
Is the answer required :
pull or ‘to’ pull?
finish or ‘to’ finish?
young woman or girl?
I could go on…(and on) get my point!
All of you know what I am talking about.
A simple solution - tell user if you want a verb ,noun or adjective!!!
It’s kind of more about knowing how to identify what a Japanese verb looks like, it does come with practice/exposure – the verbs will always be the “to ____”, so if the item ends in those “う” sound hiragana (i.e. する, む, く, る, etc) you’ll typically know it’s a verb item (there are some exceptions of course, examples being things like adverbs that end in く)
This doesn’t really make a difference on your response, you just know the item for what it is – these won’t be “to ____”
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Does it have hiragana in the kanji word at the end?
- Yes: it’s almost certainly a verb.
Is the translation an adjective in English?
- No: it’s a noun.
- Yes: it’s an adjective.
In its kanji form, does it have the い sticking out?
No: it’s not an i adjective.
Yes: it’s most likely a na adjective.
I highly advise you to study some Japanese grammar. Your situation comes from that, not from WK itself 
Also:
That’s something WK teaches you.
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Except, of course, for the な adjectives that end in い
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My bad. Wrong rule of thumb. The right one is that if it doesn’t have an い sticking out in its kanji form, it’s a na adjective. Do you confirm?
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嫌い? 幸い? みたい (the “looks like” suffix version) I know I’m nitpicking, but they do exist.
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Or when it’s a noun ending in い derived from the stem of a verb ending in う.
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@Korinsan Do you know any grammar? It should be obvious when something is a verb.
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hilarious replys.
I know my hiragana and katakana and grammar.
I’m talking about single kanji not sentences!
Ok, I remember the “rule” now. If in its kanji form, it doesn’t have the い, it’s not a i adjective. I think that’s it 
No worries about nitpicking. You were just correcting me. My brain is just a mess
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There aren’t any items that are a single kanji that require you to put “to” in front for the infinitive form.
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Kanji can’t have parts of speech so I have no idea what you want.
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you are wrong
I’ll take it back if someone can produce an example. And I’ll send an email to them to them to complain about it myself.
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I agree with @MissMisc that continued practice and exposure will help you recognise the pattern on what is and isn’t a verb (barring some exceptions, like every language tends to have.)
The only other thing I can advise is to read the accompanying texts thoroughly. ^^ WK flags what is a verb/noun/whatnot, and the mnemonic blurb for almost every verb will include some form of “You can see that it’s a verb because of the u-row kana sticking from the kanji.” Same with some of the more common characteristic of the い-adjectives.
Stick with it, and you’ll see those messages plenty for it to cement itself. Good luck! 
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You will never have to type “to” when being prompted for a kanji. This only happens with verbs, which are vocabulary.
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eg:
if i answer ‘to’ pull its wrong
if i answer pull its correct
sometimes the answer requires ‘to’ or rather accepts ‘to’ and other times it doesnt.
you know what , I will take a screenshot
The kanji (pink items) will never be “to ___”, nor will they have parts of speech because they’re not words, you’re learning how to read them + their associated meanings
vs the vocab (purple item)
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Thank you for understanding and the explanation.
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