Prefixes and Suffixes Word Search
This prefixes and suffixes word search holds the terms prefix, suffix, affix and root word, and the words built from them: unhappy, preview, disagree, careful, hopeless and kindness.
A prefix goes on the front of a base word and changes its meaning: un- and dis- mean not, re- means again, pre- means before. A suffix goes on the end and often changes the part of speech, turning the verb enjoy into the noun enjoyment or the noun care into the adjective careful. Many prefixes come from Latin and Greek: sub- means under, as in submarine, and bi- and tri- count the wheels on a bicycle and a tricycle.
Spelling rules apply at the joint. A final e usually drops before a suffix that starts with a vowel, so use becomes usable, but it stays before a consonant, as in hopeless. A short vowel doubles the last consonant, so big becomes biggest. The prefix im- is really in-, changed to match a following p, b or m, which is why we write impossible and not inpossible.
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- Affix
- Antifreeze
- Base Word
- Bicycle
- Biggest
- Careful
- Childhood
- Dangerous
- Disagree
- Dislike
- Enjoyment
- Fearless
- Friendship
- Golden
- Hopeless
- Impossible
- Invention
- Joyful
- Kindness
- Midnight
- Misplace
- Movement
- Nonstop
- Overflow
- Painter
- Prefix
- Preheat
- Preview
- Readable
- Rebuild
- Redo
- Rewrite
- Root Word
- Slowly
- Submarine
- Suffix
- Teacher
- Tricycle
- Unhappy
- Unlock