Common Prefixes
A prefix is a group of letters added to the start of a word to change its meaning. Choose a prefix below to see every word that begins with it, along with what the prefix means.
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- abaway from · 621 words
- adtoward · 655 words
- afterlater or behind · 45 words
- alterother · 33 words
- annot or without · 1,951 words
- antebefore · 68 words
- antiagainst · 778 words
- autoself · 232 words
- bethoroughly, or to make · 1,747 words
- bitwo · 1,099 words
- bysecondary or near · 60 words
- circumaround · 84 words
- cotogether or jointly · 6,405 words
- comwith or together · 935 words
- conwith or together · 1,943 words
- contraagainst · 109 words
- cortogether or with · 556 words
- credto believe · 43 words
- deto remove or reverse · 3,746 words
- ditwo or twice · 3,215 words
- dictto say or speak · 30 words
- disnot or apart · 1,690 words
- dysbad, difficult or impaired · 77 words
- ento put into or cause to be · 1,432 words
- exout of or former · 1,474 words
- exooutside · 116 words
- extraoutside or beyond · 106 words
- foraway, or completely · 712 words
- forebefore or in front · 319 words
- graphwriting or drawing · 31 words
- hexsix · 72 words
- hexasix · 49 words
- homosame · 122 words
- hyperover or excessive · 348 words
- ilnot · 162 words
- imnot, or into · 1,122 words
- innot, or into · 4,501 words
- interbetween · 899 words
- intrawithin · 80 words
- irnot · 310 words
- malbad or badly · 238 words
- megavery large · 94 words
- microsmall · 432 words
- miswrongly · 1,235 words
- monoone or single · 302 words
- multimany or more than one · 277 words
- nonnot · 1,563 words
- octeight · 75 words
- omniall · 32 words
- outbeyond or better than · 1,295 words
- parabeside or beyond · 321 words
- polymany · 308 words
- postafter or behind · 318 words
- prebefore · 1,716 words
- proforward or in favor of · 1,433 words
- pseudofalse · 59 words
- reagain or back · 6,675 words
- scribto write · 14 words
- seapart or aside · 1,835 words
- semihalf or partly · 230 words
- subunder or below · 1,041 words
- superabove or beyond · 665 words
- telefar or at a distance · 163 words
- transacross or beyond · 413 words
- trithree · 651 words
- unnot, or to reverse · 3,851 words
- underbelow or less than · 401 words
- unione · 240 words
- vocvoice or to call · 57 words
- withagainst or away · 45 words
Why Prefixes Matter in Word Games
Knowing common prefixes helps you spot long plays quickly. If you can build a base word, adding a prefix such as RE, UN or PRE often turns it into a bigger, higher scoring word.