| There are 149 English roots starting with [B]. There are 263 words in the top 5,000 most frequently used English words. There are 845 words in total. |
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| Root | Meaning | Words(Top5,000) | Other words | |
| ba (ba, bo) |
both | both ****[238] | ||
| babe | babe | baby ****[460] | babe, babysitting | |
| back | |
back | back ****[113], background ****[1362], backward **[4063], backwards **[3868] |
aback, backing, backwardly, backwardness, comeback, feedback, paperback |
| bad | bad | bad ****[204], badly ***[2164] | ||
| bag | bag, pack, bundle |
bag ****[827], baggage **[3870] | beanbag, bumbag, dirtbag, feedbag, handbag, manbag, punchbag, ragbag, ratbag, sandbag, teabag, windbag |
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| bail | bail | bail ☆[5471] | ||
| bake | bake | bake ****[2030] | baked, baker, bakery, baking | |
| baktr | small staff | bacteria ***[2296] | ||
| balcon | balcony | balcony ☆[5358] | balconied | |
| ball | dance | ballet ☆[5463] | ball | |
| ball | |
ball | ball ****[1411], balloon ***[2656], ballot **[4225], baseball ***[2826], basketball ***[3108], football ****[852] |
ballooning, balloonist, balloon-like, balloter, ballpark, ballroom, footballer, meatball |
| bamboo | bamboo | bamboo ☆[4586] | ||
| ban | summon, command, proclaim |
ban ***[2151] | ||
| banana | banana | banana ***[2851] |
| band | |
strip, bind | band ****[1025], bandage **[4510], bond ***[2099] |
bandwagon, bandy, bondable, Bondage, broadband |
| bandon | power, jurisdiction |
abandon ****[2588] | ||
| bank | (river) bank, hill, elevation |
bank ****[1400] | ||
| bank (bank-, bench) |
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bank, table | bank ****[565], banking **[3691], banquet ☆[5168] |
banker, bankrupt, bankruptcy, embank |
| bar | |
bar, barrier | bar ****[973], barrel **[3849], barrier ****[1808], embarrass **[3545], embarrassed ***[2866], embarrassing ***[2859], embarrassment **[3795] |
barrage, bartender, debarrass, embarrassable, embarrassedly, embarrassingly |
| barbar (barbar-, brav-) |
foreign, strange, brave |
barbarian ☆[4816], brave ***[3133] | bravely, braveness, bravery | |
| bare | bare, naked | bare **[4208], barely ***[3406] | ||
| bargain | bargain | bargain **[3880] | ||
| bas (bas- bat-, ba-) |
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step, foundation, to go, walk |
base ****[512], baseball ***[2826], based ***[2314], basement **[4090], basic ****[850], basically ****[1179], basis ****[1543], database **[4220] |
acrobat, acrobatic, acrobatically, adiabatic, aerobatic, anabasis, anabatic, antiparabema, basal, baseless, baselessly, baselessness, basely, baseness, basidiocarp, basidioma, basidiomycete, basidiospore, basidium, basion, basionym, basophilic, bass, bema, catabasis, catabatic, diabase, diabatic, diabetes, diabetic, dibasic, hyperbaton, hypobasis, katabasis, katabatic, monobasic, polybasic, stereobate, stylobate, tribasic |
| basket | basket | basket ***[2361], basketball ***[3108] |
basketful, basketwork | |
| bat | bat | bat ***[2215] | ||
| bath | |
bath | bath ***[3201], bathe ☆[5025], bathroom ***[3035] |
bathtub, bathwater, sunbathe, sunbather |
| batt (batt-, bat-) |
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beat, strike | abate ☆[5346], battalion ☆[5486], battery ***[2324], battle ****[1037], combat ***[2835], debate ****[871] |
abatement, abater, batt, batter, combatable, combatant, combater, combative, combatter, rebatable, rebate, rebateable, rebater |
| bay | bay | bay **[3920] | ||
| be | |
be | be ****[1], being ****[945], maybe ****[230] |
wellbeing |
| beach | beach | beach ****[1401] | ||
| beak | beak | beak **[3789] | beaked, beakless, beaklike, beaky |
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| beam | beam | beam **[3540] | ||
| bean | bean | bean ****[1669] | beanbag | |
| bear | |
bear | bear ****[1005], birth ****[1126], birthday ****[1467], birthplace ☆[4910], born ****[729] |
bearability, bearable, bearableness, bearably, bearish, berth, childbirth, new-born, unbearable, unbearableness, unborn |
| beast | beast | beast ***[2458] | beastly | |
| beat | beat, strike repeatedly, thrash |
beat ****[986], beating ☆[5203] | heartbeat, unbeatable | |
| bed | bed | bed ****[745] | embed | |
| beg | beg | beg ***[3191] | beggar | |
| bel (bel-, belli-) |
war | bell ***, rebel **[3952] | antebellum, bellicose, belligerence, belligerency, belligerent, belligerently, Bellona, bellum, postbellum, rebeldom, rebellike, rebellion, rebellious, rebelliously, rebelliousness |
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| bell | bell | bell ****[2364] | ||
| bell (bell-) |
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pretty, handsome, charming |
beautiful ****[1085], beautifully **[3978], beauty ****[1328] |
beauteous, beautician, beldam, bell-, belladonna, Bellar, belle, belvedere, embellish, embellisher, embellishment |
| bench | bench | bench ***[2762] | ||
| bend | bend | bend ****[1613] | bendable, bender, bent | |
| bene (bene-, ben-) |
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good, well | benefactor ☆[5487], beneficial **[3508], benefit ****[541], benevolent ☆[4876] |
benedict, benediction, benefaction, benefic, benefice, beneficence, beneficially, beneficialness, beneficiary, benefiter, benevolence, benevolently, benevolentness, benign, benignant, benignity |
| berry | berry | berry ☆[4900] | blueberry, raspberry, strawberry |
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| bet | bet | bet ****[1815], betting **[4490] | abet | |
| better | better | better ****[430] | betterment | |
| bi | |
two, twice | balance ****[1065], bicycle ***[2651], bike ****[1310], bilingual ☆[4649], billion ****[384], biscuit ***[2436], combination ****[1353], combine ****[1226] |
balanceable, balanced, bi, biathlon, bicameral, bicentenary, bicycler, bicyclist, biennial, biennially, bifocal, bigamy, bilateral, bilaterally, bilateralness, bilingualism, bilingually, billionaire, billionth, binary, bine, binoculars, biscotti, bisexual, combinability, combinable, combinational, combinative, combiner, derivatively, derivativeness, imbalance, motorbike |
| bi | around | because ****[65] | beware | |
| bias | bias | bias ***[2475] | biassed | |
| bib (bib-) |
drink | beer ****[1773], beverage ☆[5019] | beery, bever, bib, bibber, bibulous, bibulously, bibulousness, imbibe, imbiber, winebibber |
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| bid | bid, command | bid **[3742], forbid **[3581] | ||
| big | big | big ****[131] | biggish, bigness | |
| bill | bill | bill ****[819] | ||
| bin | bin | bin ***[2809] | ||
| bind | |
bind | bind ***[2813], bound **[3792], bundle ☆[4808] |
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| bio | |
life | autobiography ☆[5202], biography **[4279], biological ***[2172], biology ***[2631] |
abio, abiogenesis, abiotic, aerobic, aerobiology, amphibious, anhydrobiosis, anoxybiosis, antibiosis, antibiotic, antibiotics, astrobiology, autobiographer, bio, biocentric, biocentrism, biochemical, biochemist, biochron, biochronology, biocoenosis, biodegrade, biodiversity, biogenesis, biograph, biographic, biologic, biologically, biologism, biologist, bioluminescent, biome, biomedical, biometric, biomolecule, biomorph, biomorphism, bionics, biophilia, biophysicist, biophysics, biopoiesis, biopolymer, biopsy, biorhythm, bioscience, bioscientist, biosemiotic, biosphere, biostasis, biosynthesis, biota, biotic, biotin, biotope, biotype, biozone, chemobiosis, cryobiosis, cryptobiosis, ectosymbiosis, endosymbiont, endosymbiosis, enterobiasis, exobiology, forebear, macrobiotic, microbe, microbial, microbiologist, microbiology, microbiome, osmobiosis, probiotic |
| bird | bird | bird ****[862] | ||
| bishop | overseer | bishop ***[3551] | archbishop, archbishopric |
| bite (bite, bitter) |
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bite, bitter | bit ****[476], bite ***[2121], bitter ***[2305], bitterly **[4489] |
biting, bitterness, byte, embitter, kilobyte |
| black | black | black ****[442] | blackboard, blacken, blackhead, blackish, blackishly, blackly, blackness, blacky |
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| blade | blade | blade ***[2763] | ||
| blank | blank | blank ***[3217], blanket **[3379] | blankly, blankness | |
| blaspheme | blaspheme | blame ****[1515] | blamable, blamably, blameable, blameably, blameful, blaspheme, blasphemer, blasphemy |
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| blast | blast | blast ***[3127] | blaster | |
| blaze | blaze | blaze ☆[5366] | ||
| blend | blend | blend ***[2949] | ||
| bless | bless | bless ***[2225], blessing **[3483] | ||
| block | block | block ****[1010] | blockade, blockage, blocker, blockish, blocky |
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| blog | blog | blog **[4047] | blogger, blogging | |
| blond | blond | blond **[4441], blonde **[4458] | ||
| blood | blood | bleed ☆[5243], blood ****[462] | bloody, nosebleed | |
| bloom | bloom | bloom ☆[5271] | abloom, bloomless, bloomy | |
| blow | blow | blow ***[2104] | blow, overblow, overblown |
| blue | blue | blue ****[825] | bleu, blueberry, bluely, blueness |
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| board (board, border) |
a plank, flat surface, board |
board ****[990], border ***[2626] | aboard, blackboard, boardable, boardgame, boardlike, bodyboard, bordered |
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| boast | boast | boast **[4267] | boasted, boaster, boastful, boasting, boastingly, boastless |
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| boat | boat | boat ****[1784] | ||
| body | |
body | anybody ****[1377], bodily ☆[5223], body ****[199], embody **[3811], everybody ****[790], nobody ****[1266], somebody ****[732] |
bodyboard, bodybuilder, bodyguard, embodier, embodiment |
| bol (bal-, bel-, bol-) |
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throw | devil **[4445], problem ****[130], symbol ****[1591], symbolic ***[2996] |
ametabolic, ametabolism, amphibole, amphibolic, amphibolite, amphibolous, amphiboly, anabolic, anabolism, astrobleme, ballism, ballista, ballistic, ballistospore, belomancy, belonephobia, bole, bolide, bolometer, bolometric, bolometrically, bolometry, catabolic, catabolically, catabolism, devilish, diabolic, diabolo, emblem, emblematic, embolic, embolism, embolismic, embolize, embolon, embolus, emboly, hemiballismus, holometabolism, hyperbola, hyperbole, hyperbolic, hyperboloid, katabolic, katabolically, metabolic, metabolism, metabolite, metabolize, palaver, parable, parabola, parabolic, paraboloid, parle, parley, parol, parolable, parole, parolee, problematic, problematically, symbolically, symbolicalness, symbolisation, symbolise, symbolism, symbolist, symbolization, symbolize, symbolizer, symbology, taurobolium, thromboembolism |
| bold | bold | bold **[3992] | boldly, boldness | |
| bomb | bomb | bomb ****[1884] | bombard, bombing | |
| bone | bone | bone ****[1192] | boneless, bony | |
| bonnet | bonnet | bonnet ☆[5287] | ||
| book | |
book | book ****[200], handbook ☆[5393], textbook **[4013] |
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| boom | boom | boom ***[2366] | boom | |
| boost | boost | boost ***[2325] | booster | |
| boot | boot | boot ****[1978] | boots | |
| bore | |
bore | bore **[3340], bored ***[2973], boring ***[2538] |
boredom, boringly |
| borrow | borrow | borrow ***[2406] | borrower | |
| boss | boss | beef ***[2665], boss ****[1483] | bossily, bossiness, bossy | |
| bother | bother | bother ****[1699] | ||
| bottom | bottom | bottom ****[1205] | ||
| bounce | bounce | bounce ***[3589] | bounceable, bouncy | |
| bound | bound, limit | boundary ***[2327] | bound | |
| bow | bow | rainbow ☆[4670] | bout, bow, bowed | |
| bowl | pot, cup, bowl | bowl ****[1979] | ||
| box | box | box ****[899], boxer ☆[4658] | ||
| boy | boy | boy ****[652] | boyish | |
| brace | arm | embrace ***[2175] | brace, embraceable, embracement, embracer |
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| brain | brain | brain ****[586] | brainstorming, brainy | |
| brake | brake | brake **[3674] | canebrake | |
| branch | branch | branch ***[3100] | branchless, branchlike, branchy |
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| brand | brand | brand ****[1504] | brander |
| bread | bread | bread ****[1460] | ||
| break | |
break | breach **[3470], break ****[331], breakdown ☆[4853], breakfast ****[1845] |
breaker, breaking, breakless, breakthrough, broken, groundbreaking, heartbreaking, heartbreakingly |
| breast | breast | breast ****[2355] | abreast, breastfeed | |
| breath | breath | breath ****[1293], breathe ****[1307] | breathy | |
| breeze | breeze | breeze ☆[5419] | breezeless, breezy | |
| brev (brev-) |
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short (time), brief |
abbreviation ☆[4605], brief ****[1951], briefly **[3660] |
abbreviate, abbreviated, abbreviator, abridgable, abridge, abridgeable, abridgement, abridger, abridgment, brebity, brev, brevextensor, brevicaudate, brevity, briefness |
| brick | brick | brick **[3898] | ||
| bride | bride | bride ***[3135] | bridal | |
| bridge | bridge | bridge ***[2722] | bridgeable, bridgeless | |
| bright | bright | bright ****[1243], brightly **[3800] | brighten, brightness | |
| brilli | beryl, brilliant |
brilliant ***[2263] | brilli, brilliance, brilliancy, brilliantly |
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| bring | bring | bring ****[169] | upbringing | |
| broad | |
wide, not narrow |
abroad ***[2744], broad ****[1678], broadcast ***[2821], broadly **[4174] |
breadth, broadband, broadcaster, broadcasting, broaden, broadness |
| bronze | bronze | bronze **[4789] | bronzy | |
| brood (brood, beed) |
brood, fetus, hatching |
breed **[3424], breeding ☆[5039] | brood, brooding, broodingly, inbreed, inbreeding |
| broom | broom | broom ☆[5350] | ||
| brother | brother | brother ****[452] | brotherless, brotherlike | |
| brush | brush | brush ***[2518], toothbrush ☆[4729] | hairbrush | |
| brute | dull, stupid, brutal |
brutal **[4273] | brutality, brutally, brute, brutify, brutish, embrute |
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| bua (bua, boo, bou) |
dwell, booth, bound |
booth ☆[4787], husband ****[995] | bound, husbander, husbandhood, husbandless, husbandly |
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| bubble | bubble | bubble ***[2484] | bubbly | |
| buck | buck | buck ***[2440] | bucker, butcher | |
| bucket | bucket | bucket **[3365] | bucketeer, bucketer | |
| budget | budget | budget ****[1620] | budgetary, budgeter | |
| bug | bug | bug ***[2502] | ||
| build | |
build, dwelling | build ****[305], builder ☆[4918], building ****[672], rebuild ***[2926] |
bodybuilder, buildable, buildup |
| bulb | bulb | bulb ☆[5426] | ||
| bulk | bulk | bulk ***[2988] | ||
| bull | bull, bovine | bull **[3659] | bulldog | |
| bull | |
bubble, flask | boil ***[2957], bowl ****[2067], bullet ***[3092] |
boiled, boiling, bullectomy, bulletless, bulletlike, bullet-like, bulliferous, ebullient, ebullism |
| bunch | bunch | bunch ***[3211] | bunchy | |
| burden | burden, load, weight |
burden ***[3212] | burdensome, burdensomely, burdensomeness |
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| bureau | office, desk | bureaucracy **[4179] | bureau | |
| burn | |
burn | burn ****[1128], burning **[4241], burnt **[3709] |
burningly, burnout |
| burs | pouch, purse | purse **[3901] | bursa, bursalogy, bursar, bursary, bursectomy, bursiform, disburse |
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| burst | burst | burst ***[2473] | burster, outburst | |
| bury | bury | burial **[4742], bury ****[1608] | ||
| bush | bush | bush ***[2798] | ||
| busy | |
busy | business ****[208], businessman ***[3129], busy ****[1286] |
busily, businesswoman |
| butt | butt | bottle ****[1264] | butt | |
| butter | butter | butter ****[2057], butterfly ☆[5427] | butterless, buttery | |
| button | button | button ****[1891] | buttonophobia, buttons | |
| buy | buy | buy ****[254], buyer ***[2444] | buyable | |
| buzz | buzz | buzz ☆[4621] | buzzing | |
| bye | bye | bye ***[2261] |
