Vocabulary Match
Grow your English vocabulary with a free, browser-based matching game. See a word, pick its correct meaning, and build retention through play.
WordsPrefixes & Suffixes
English builds meaning from small reusable parts: un-, re-, pre- at the front, -ful, -less, -able at the end. Below: the parts worth memorising and the pairs that decide most questions.
Choose your difficulty
Pick a level to start playing. You can switch at any time.
How to play
Read the affix and its meaning, then tap the word that uses it.
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WordsWhat you are actually practicing
English builds meaning out of small reusable parts. A prefix sits at the front and changes the sense — un- reverses, re- repeats, pre- moves something earlier. A suffix sits at the end and usually changes the job the word does in a sentence: -ful turns a noun into an adjective, -less denies it, -able makes it a possibility.
Knowing these parts is the fastest way to guess a word you have never seen. This game drills the mapping between an affix, its meaning, and a real word that actually uses it.
How the game works
You are shown an affix and its meaning, then four words. Pick the word that uses that affix with that meaning. A wrong pick reveals the correct word immediately, so every miss teaches one mapping.
Easy covers the most common prefixes. Medium mixes prefixes and suffixes. Hard uses the full set, including pairs that oppose each other such as -ful and -less.
The parts worth knowing
Prefixes: un- not or opposite, re- again, pre- before, dis- not, mis- wrongly, over- too much, under- too little, sub- below, inter- between, anti- against, semi- half, bi- two, tri- three, multi- many.
Suffixes: -ful full of, -less without, -able can be, -er one who does.
Strategies that actually raise your score
Read the meaning before the words. The gloss tells you what the affix contributes; the correct word is the one where that contribution is visible.
Watch the opposing pairs. careful and careless share a root and differ only in the suffix. Questions built on pairs are decided by the suffix alone, so slow down there.
Say the word together with its root. unhappy is happy with un- in front. If you can hear the base word inside an option, the affix is doing exactly the work the gloss describes — and that is your answer.
Rule out by position. A prefix can only appear at the front and a suffix only at the end. Options that carry the target letters in the wrong place are wrong before you even read the meaning.