English Banana.com Test Your Grammar Skills 100 of the Most Common Suffixes in English (the vowel sound on the suffix is shown in red) Suffixes with a Schwa sound (uh) -al -an -ance -ant -ar -ard -ate -cian -cious -dom -ed -en -ence -ent animal human appearance important lunar wizard accurate musician delicious freedom added wooden licence student -er -es -est -ful -ial -in -le -less -ment -ness -on -or -our -ous writer buses biggest joyful initial raisin little pointless entertainment happiness cotton doctor colour famous -cy -ey bandage basic maxim meeting fancy trolley -is -ish -ism -ist -ie -ies apple zebra children explosion person certain marathon position schedule album measure focus forward -it -ive -ship prohibit passive worship i sound: Suffixes with an -age -ic -im -ing -ple -ra -ren -sion -son -tain -thon -tion -ule -um -ure -us -ward tennis finish racism pianist Suffixes with an ii sound: cookie ladies -ly -ry quickly very -ty -y party windy Suffixes with two vowel sounds: uh / ii i / uh -ably -acy -amy -archy comfortably democracy monogamy monarchy -ary -ery -ity dictionary pottery purity -ogy technology -omy astronomy -raphy geography -ible -ical responsible economical uh / uh uh / i -ative talkative -able available Suffixes with other sounds: iy -eous, -ia, -ian, -ier, -iour, -ious, -ium eu -o, -ow, -phobe -fy, -ise a -gram o -logue oy Suffixes which are stressed: -aise -ane -ee -eer mayonnaise mundane trainee engineer -esce -ese -esque -ess coalesce Chinese picturesque princess -ette -ique -teen cigarette unique nineteen 65 -oid