Suffixes are attached to the end of a word using a few spelling rules, with some exceptions. Learn how to use the right suffix with BBC Bitesize KS3 English.

For the second time this year, a dictionary publisher has given its “Word of the Year” honor to something that is not a word. Merriam-Webster declared the suffix “-ism” as the word (except ...

As a word by itself—which is to say, not as a suffix—ish means more or less the same thing: kind of, thereabouts, in a way. And imagining how it broke free to become syntactically stand-alone ...

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the “-trix” suffix to the 15th century, from medieval Latin. Sign up for CJR’s daily email It’s sometimes useful to have a feminine version of a noun, since ...

What is Spelling Bee Buddy? ... may suggest you start focusing on words that start with “D.” Or it may help you think of words that share similar word stems, prefixes or suffixes.

And let’s be honest, no one nails every rule all the time. We’ve all stumbled. One case in point that trips people up more ...

In politics, it takes little to turn a minor dust-up into a scandal. And thanks to the Nixon administration, American English now has a handy little suffix at the ready for the muckrakers: -gate.

A suffix is a letter or a group of letters that are added to the end of a word to make a new word. Generally, suffixes have a particular meaning.

The Suffix 'Ism' Is Merriam-Webster's 2015 Word Of The Year Merriam-Webster says its dictionary website has had very high traffic for words ending in i-s-m. Words such as racism, terrorism ...

Suffixes are as fruitful as they are underappreciated. And, the editors note, some non-ism entries also had a pretty spectacular year, especially minion, a word that 500 years ago referred to the ...