List of Suffixes - Spelling Words Well

Spelling Words Well : List of Suffixes, Meanings and Examples

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List of Suffixes

Here is a list of common suffixes, their meanings and lists of words using those

suffixes. We¡¯ve included words of varying difficulty so that you can choose the ones

most appropriate for your students.

-able, -ible: able to be

-acy: state or quality

comfortable

privacy

-age: several meanings

including process, the

outcome of & relationship

coverage

tolerable

accuracy

breakage

agreeable

democracy

wreckage

capable

candidacy

leakage

reasonable

bureaucracy

usage

terrible

delicacy

postage

collectible

fallacy

percentage

possible

legacy

stoppage

flexible

literacy

mileage

responsible

piracy

marriage

-al, -ial: pertaining to,

having the character of

natural

-ance, -ence:

state or quality of

acceptance

actual

clearance

contestant

original

abundance

participant

accidental

importance

correspondent

political

performance

dependent

official

difference

driver

essential

reference

teacher

financial

occurrence

worker

partial

dependence

doctor

presidential

existence

creator

-ant, -ent, er, or: one who

accountant

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elementary

-en: forms verbs from

nouns or adjectives or

adj. from nouns

lengthen

honorary

strengthen

fearful

dietary

shorten

thankful

momentary

moisten

hopeful

imaginary

sharpen

forgetful

budgetary

darken

helpful

summary

wooden

playful

dignitary

woolen

useful

intermediary

golden

watchful

emissary

mistaken

spoonful

-ary: pertaining to,

connected with

-ful: full of

joyful

magnify

-ic, -ac, -il, -ile:of, like,

pertaining to

comic

petrify

historic

Spanish

qualify

elastic

British

justify

poetic

selfish

amplify

cardiac

foolish

certify

maniac

boorish

horrify

civil

childish

classify

fragile

bookish

unify

agile

reddish

signify

docile

cultish

-fy: to make

-ish: like, pertaining to

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-ist: one who makes or

does

artist

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-ity: state or condition

-ive having the nature of

activity

active

dentist

ability

creative

realist

possibility

effective

motorist

generosity

conclusive

chemist

formality

instructive

scientist

hospitality

executive

jurist

curiosity

legislative

extremist

civility

consecutive

ophthalmologist

locality

secretive

accompanist

hostility

aggressive

capitalize

careless

-logy study of, science

of

geology

alphabetize

hopeless

biology

magnetize

helpless

technology

apologize

endless

ecology

summarize

fearless

sociology

generalize

worthless

psychology

visualize

sleepless

terminology

vitalize

powerless

archaeology

dramatize

nameless

theology

energize

useless

mythology

-ize: to cause to become -less without

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-ly: characteristic of

-ment: condition of

sadly

agreement

-ness: state or condition

of

darkness

gladly

enjoyment

eagerness

gradually

argument

fairness

timely

retirement

sadness

cowardly

resentment

happiness

bravely

replacement

emptiness

justly

amazement

illness

secondly

assignment

goodness

rarely

refinement

likeness

hourly

embarrassment

heaviness

dangerous

-tion, -sion, -ion: state,

condition, action, process

or result

revolution

humorous

commendation

chilly

furious

concession

dusty

nutritious

transition

oily

spacious

relation

touchy

victorious

starvation

faulty

thunderous

description

noisy

nervous

explanation

cranky

gracious

temptation

fiery

courageous

imagination

glossy

-ous: having the qualities

of

-y: full of, somewhat, or

somewhat like

cloudy

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