Free Prefix and Suffix Quiz – Practice Word Building

Read each sentence and choose the correctly formed word using a prefix or suffix. Get instant feedback on each choice. After answering all 5 questions correctly, detailed explanations will appear below each question to help you understand how the prefix or suffix changes the meaning. Test and learn in a simple and fun way.

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Free Prefix and Suffix Quiz – Practice Word Building

Prefix and Suffix Quiz – Unlock New Words from Words You Know

Welcome to our free Prefix and Suffix Quiz! Adding a prefix like "un-" or "re-" to the start of a word, or a suffix like "-ness" or "-ful" to the end, can completely change its meaning or part of speech. Our prefix suffix quiz with answers practices the most common ones used in everyday English.

This English prefixes suffixes MCQs page is one of the fastest ways to grow your vocabulary, because learning just one prefix or suffix often unlocks the meaning of dozens of related words at once.

Our word building quiz shows each prefix or suffix inside a complete sentence, which makes it much easier to remember than studying a long list of word parts in isolation.

Practice this prefix suffix practice online set regularly, and you'll be able to guess the meaning of new, unfamiliar words just by recognizing their parts.