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Plural of prefix

regular plural

The plural of prefix is prefixes.

Forms of prefix

Singularprefix /ˈpɹiːfɪks/
Pluralprefixes
Countablecountable

Prefixes in a sentence

  • The chosen prefixes won the vote in part because they start with the only two letters left in the alphabet that are not already used in measurement.2022 November 18, Ian Sample, “Earth weighs in at six ronnagrams as new prefixes picked for big and small”, in The Guardian
  • It is a commonly known fact that formal marks of perfective aspect in Slavic are prefixes.From the entry Slavic
  • Prefixes, suffixes, and infixes are all affixing particles.From the entry affixing
  • For example, re- (“again”) is highly productive (rebuild, rethink), whereas other prefixes are relatively less so.2026 April, Olha Matviyas, Victoria Rokoshevs’ka, Yulia Leshchyshyn, “THE MOST PRODUCTIVE PREFIXES IN ENGLISH MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY”, in The…. From the entry productive
  • Prefixes or adpositions that cause lenition are marked with a +.2026 February 4, Stefan G. Müller, “An Annotated Na’vi Dictionary”, in ’Ivong Na’vi, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2026, page 2. From the entry lenition

Meaning of prefix

  1. noun A morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning, for example as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure, re- in reheat, etc.
  2. noun A set of digits placed before a telephone number, to indicate where the number is based, what type of phone number it is (landline, mobile, toll-free, premium rate etc.).
  3. noun A title added to a person's name, such as Mr. or Dr.

Full definition of prefix

Questions about the plural of prefix

What is the plural of prefix?
The plural of prefix is prefixes.
Is prefix countable?
Prefix is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prefix (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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