WORD FORMATION: the most common ones

Here you have a list of the most common words used in the third part of the cambridge exams (level b2 and c1).

Word formation is an important part of the USE OF ENGLISH. 

Don't study a list. You just have to read it and try to get used to writing the word correctly as there are no rules for using SUFFIXES or PREFIXES.

ABLE

- Ability

- Enable

- Disable

- Disabled

-Disability

ACCEPT

- Acceptable

- Acceptably

- Unacceptable

- Unacceptability

- Acceptability

- Acceptance

ACCESS

- Accessible

- Inaccessible

- Accessibility

- Accession

ACCURATE

- Inaccurate

- Accuracy

- Inaccuracy

ACTIVE

- Inactive

- Actively

- Activate

- Activist

- Activity

- Activism

- Activator

- Activation

ADD

- Addition

- Additional

- Additionally

- Additive

- Addable

- Add-on

ADMIT

- Admission

- Admittance

- Admissible

- Inadmissible

- Admiteddly

- Readmit

APPROVE

- Approval

- Disapproval

- Approving

- Disapproving

- Disapprovingly

ASSESS

- Assessment

- Assessor

ASSIST

- Assistant

- Assistance

ATTEND

- Attendance

- Attendant

- Inattention

- Attentive

- Inattentive

BELIEF

- Disbelief

- Believe

- Disbelieve

- Believer

- Believable

- Unbelievable

- Unbelievably

BREAK

- Breakable

- Unbreakable

- Outbreak

- Breakaway

- Breakdown

- Breakthrough

BROAD

- Broaden

- Breadth

- Broadminded

- Broadside

- Broadcast

- Broadcaster

CARE

- Careless

- Carelessly

- Careful

- Carefully

- Carefree

- Caring

- Caringly

CHARACTER

- Characterless

- Characterize

- Characterization

- Characteristic

- Characteristically

CHILD

- Childhood

- Childish

- Childishly

- Childless

- Childlike

CLEAR

- Unclear

- Clearly

- Clearance

- Clarity

- Clarify

- Clarification

CLOSE

- Closely

- Closeness

- Closure

- Disclose

- Disclosure

- Enclose

COMFORT

- Discomfort

- Comfortable

- Uncomfortable

- Comforting

- Comfortably

COMPARE

- Comparison

- Comparable

- Comparably

- Comparative

- Comparability

- Incomparable

- Incomparably

COMPETE

- Competition

- Competitor

- Competitive

- Uncompetitive

CREATE

- Creation

- Creator

- Creature

- Creativity

- Creative

- Creatively

- Uncreative

- Uncreatively

- Recreate

- Recreation

- Creacionist

- Creationism

DIE

- Dead

- Death

- Deathly

DELIVER

- Delivery

- Deliverer

- Deliverable

- Undeliverable

- Deliverance

- Undelivered

DEPEND

- Dependence

- Independence

- Dependent

- Independent

- Dependant

- Independently

- Dependability

DEVELOP

- Development

- Developmental

- Developmentally

- Developer

- Developing

- Underdeveloped

DIFFER

- Difference

- Indifference

- Different

- Differently

- Differential

- Differentiation

- Indifferent

- Differentiate

DIRECT

- Direction

- Directive

- Directly

- Director

- Directory

- Indirect

- Indirectly

- Redirect

DIVIDE

- Division

- Divisible

- Dividable

DOUBT

- Doubtless

- Doubtful

- Doubtlessly

EASY
- Ease
- Easily

EFFECT

- Effective

- Effectively

- Effectiveness

- Ineffective

- Ineffectively

- Ineffectiveness

EDUCATE

- Educator

- Educated

- Educational

- Educationally

EMPLOY

- Employer

- Employee

- Employment

- Unemployment

- Employed

- Unemployed

- Employable

EQUAL

- Equality

- Inequality

- Equalizer

- Unequal

- Unequally

EXCEPT

- Exception

- Exceptional

- Exceptionally

EXIST

- Existing

- Existence

- Existent

- Coexist

- Coexistence

- Non-existence

- Non-existent

- Existential

EXPAND

- Expansive

- Expandable

EXPECT

- Expectation

- Expentancy

- Expectant

- Unexpected

- Unexpectedly

EXTEND

- Extent

- Extension

- Extensive

- Extensively

- Extendable

FAIL

- Failure

- Failed

FAMILIAR

- Familiarity

- Familiarize

- Familiarly

- Unfamiliar

- Unfamiliarity

- Familiarization

FASHION

- Fashionable

- Unfashionable

- Unfashionably

FAT

- Fatty

- Fatten

- Fatness

FREE

- Freedom

GROW

- Growth

GUIDE

- Guidance

- Guideline

- Misguide

HARM

- Harmful

- Harmless

- Harmfully

HAZARD

- Hazardous

- Hazardously

HOME

- Homecoming

- Homeland

- Homeless

- Homelessness

- Homesick

- Homework

IMPRESS

- Impression

- Impressive

- Impressively

- Unimpressive

- Unimpressively

- Impressionist

- Impressionistic

INDUSTRY

- Industrial

- Industrially

- Industrialize

- Industrialization

- Industrious

- Industriously

INFORM

- Informative

- Information

- Misinform

- Misinformed

- Informer

INHABIT

- Inhabitants

- Inhabited

- Uninhabited

INJURE

- Injury

- Injurious

- Injured

INTEND

- Intention

- Intentional

- Intentionally

- Unintentional

INVENT

- Invention

- Inventor

- Inventive

INVEST

- Investor

- Investment

INVOLVE

- Involvement

- Involving

JOY

- Joyful

- Enjoy

- Enjoyable

- Enjoyment

JUDGE

- Judgement

- Judicious

- Misjudge

JUST

- Justify

- Justice

- Justifiable

- Justification

- Unjustified

KNOW

- Knowledge

- Knowledgeable

- Acknowledge

- Acknowledgement

- Unknown

- Well-known

LABOUR

- Labourers

- Labourious

LIKE

- Alike

- Dislike

- Unlike

- Likeable

- Likely

- Unlikely

LONG

- Length

- Longitude

LOSE

- Loss

- Lost

- Loser

MARRY

- Married

- Marriage

MASS

- Massive

- Massively

MEAN

- Meaning

- Meaningful

- Meaningless

MEMORY

- Memorize

- Memorable

- Memorization

- Memorably

MOVE

- Movement

- Moving

NATION
- National
- Nationalism
- Nationalist
- Nationality
- International
- Multinational


PREFER
- Preference
- Preferable
- Preferential
- Preferably


PRODUCE
- Product
- Productive
- Productively
- Production
- Producer
- Reproduce
- Reproduction
- Reproductive
- Unproductive


PROPOSE
- Proposal
- Proposition


REAL
- Really
- Unreal
- Realistic
- Reality
- Realism
- Realize
- Realization


RECEIVE
- Receiver
- Reception
- Receiving


RECOGNIZE
- Recognition
- Recognizable
- Recognizably
- Unrecognizable


REFER
- Reference
- Referee
- Referential


REFUSE
- Refusal


RELY
- Reliable
- Unreliable
- Reliance


SAFE
- Safety
- Safely


SATISFY
- Satisfaction
- Dissatisfaction
- Satisfying


SENSE
- Nonsence
- Senseless
- Sensible
- Sensitive


SHORT
- Shorten
- Shortage


SUBSTANCE
- Substantial
- Substantially
- Unsubstantial


SUIT
- Suitable
- Suitability
- Unsuitable


TEMPT
- Tempter
- Temptation
- Tempting


THINK
- Thoughtful
- Thoughtfully
- Thoughtfulness


TOLERATE
- Tolerance
- Intolerance
- Tolerant
- Intolerant
- Tolerable
- Intolerable


TRUE
- Truly
- Truth
- Untrue


UNDERSTAND
- Understanding
- Understandable
- Understandably
- Misunderstand
- Misunderstanding


VALUE
- Valuable
- Invaluable
- Devalue
- Overvalue
- Revalue


VARY
- Varied
- Invariable
- Invariably
- Variability
- Variable
- Variety
- Variably


WEIGH
- Weight
- Weightless
- Weighty
- Overweight
- Underweight
- Outweight


WISE
- Unwise
- Wisdom