| There are 111 English roots starting with [B]. There are 207 words in the top 5,000 most frequently used English words. There are 729 words in total. |
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| Root | Meaning | Words(Top5,000) | Other words | |
| ba (ba, bo) |
both | both **** | ||
| babe | babe | babe ☆, baby **** | babysitting | |
| back | back | back ****, background ****, backward **, backwards ** |
aback, backing, backwardly, backwardness, comeback, feedback, paperback |
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| bag | bag, pack, bundle |
bag ****, baggage ** | beanbag, bumbag, dirtbag, feedbag, handbag, manbag, punchbag, ragbag, ratbag, sandbag, teabag, windbag |
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| bake | bake | bake ****, bakery ☆ | baked, baker, baking | |
| baktr | small staff | bacteria *** | ||
| ball | dance | ballet ☆ | ball | |
| ball | ball | ball ****, balloon ***, ballot **, baseball ***, basketball ***, football **** |
ballooning, balloonist, balloon-like, balloter, ballroom, footballer, meatball |
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| bamboo | bamboo | bamboo ☆ | ||
| ban | summon, command, proclaim |
ban *** | ||
| banana | banana | banana *** | ||
| band | strip, bind | band ****, bandage **, bond *** | bandwagon, bandy, bondable, Bondage, broadband |
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| bandon | power, jurisdiction |
abandon **** | ||
| bank (bank-, bench) |
bank, table | bank ****, banker ☆, banking **, bankrupt ☆, bankruptcy ☆, banquet ☆ |
embank |
| bar | bar, barrier | bar ****, barrel **, barrier ****, embarrass **, embarrassed ***, embarrassing ***, embarrassment ** |
barrage, bartender, debarrass, embarrassable, embarrassedly, embarrassingly |
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| barbar (barbar-, brav-) |
foreign, strange, brave |
barbarian ☆, brave *** | bravely, braveness, bravery |
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| bas (bas- bat-, ba-) |
step, foundation, to go, walk |
base ****, baseball ***, based ***, basement **, basic ****, basically ****, basis ****, database ** |
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 |
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| basket | basket | basket ***, basketball *** | ||
| bath | bath | bath ***, bathe ☆ | ||
| batt (batt-, bat-) |
beat, strike | abate ☆, battalion ☆, battery ***, battle ****, combat ***, debate **** |
abatement, abater, batt, batter, combatable, combatant, combater, combative, combatter, rebatable, rebate, rebateable, rebater |
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| be | be | be ****, being ****, maybe **** | wellbeing | |
| beak | beak | beak ** | beaked, beakless, beaklike, beaky |
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| bean | bean | bean **** | beanbag | |
| bear | bear | bear ****, berth ☆, birth ****, birthday ****, birthplace ☆, born **** |
bearable, bearish, childbirth, new-born, unbearable, unborn |
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| beast | beast | beast *** | beastly | |
| beat | beat, strike repeatedly, thrash |
beat ****, beating ☆ | heartbeat, unbeatable | |
| bed | bed | bed **** | embed | |
| beg | beg | beg *** | beggar | |
| bel (bel-, belli-) |
war | bell ***, belligerent ☆, rebel **, rebellion ☆, rebellious ☆ |
antebellum, bellicose, belligerence, belligerency, belligerently, Bellona, bellum, postbellum, rebeldom, rebellike, rebelliously, rebelliousness |
| bell (bell-) |
pretty, handsome, charming |
beautiful ****, beautifully **, beauty ****, belle ☆ |
beauteous, beautician, beldam, bell-, belladonna, Bellar, belvedere, embellish, embellisher, embellishment |
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| bench | bench | bench *** | ||
| bend | bend | bend **** | bendable, bender, bent | |
| bene (bene-, ben-) |
good, well | benefactor ☆, beneficial **, benefit ****, benevolent ☆ |
benedict, benediction, benefaction, benefic, benefice, beneficence, beneficially, beneficialness, beneficiary, benefiter, benevolence, benevolently, benevolentness, benign, benignant, benignity |
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| bet | bet | bet ****, betting ** | abet | |
| better | better | better **** | betterment | |
| bi | two, twice | balance ****, bicycle ***, bike ****, bilingual ☆, billion ****, biscuit ***, combination ****, combine **** |
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 |
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| bi | around | because **** | beware | |
| bias | bias | bias *** | biassed | |
| bib (bib-) |
drink | beer ****, beverage ☆ | beery, bever, bib, bibber, bibulous, bibulously, bibulousness, imbibe, imbiber, winebibber |
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| bid | bid, command | bid **, forbid ** | ||
| big | big | big **** | biggish, bigness | |
| bind | bind | bind ***, bound **, bundle ☆ | ||
| bio | life | autobiography ☆, biography **, biological ***, biology *** |
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 |
| bishop | overseer | bishop *** | archbishop, archbishopric |
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| bite (bite, bitter) |
bite, bitter | bit ****, bite ***, bitter *** | biting, bitterness, byte, kilobyte |
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| blank | blank | blank ***, blanket ** | blankly, blankness | |
| blaspheme | blaspheme | blame **** | blamable, blamably, blameable, blameably, blameful, blaspheme, blasphemer, blasphemy |
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| block | block | block **** | blockade, blockage, blocker, blockish, blocky |
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| blog | blog | blog ** | blogger, blogging | |
| blond | blond | blond **, blonde ** | ||
| blood | blood | bleed ☆, blood **** | bloody, nosebleed | |
| bloom | bloom | bloom ☆ | abloom, bloomless, bloomy |
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| blossom | blossom | blossom ☆ | blossoming, blossomless, blossomy |
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| blow | blow | blow *** | blow, overblow, overblown |
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| blue | blue | blue **** | bleu, blueberry, bluely, blueness |
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| board (board, border) |
a plank, flat surface, board |
board ****, border *** | aboard, blackboard, boardable, boardgame, boardlike, bodyboard, bordered |
| boast | boast | boast ** | boasted, boaster, boastful, boasting, boastingly, boastless |
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| body | body | anybody ****, bodily ☆, body ****, embody **, everybody ****, nobody ****, somebody **** |
bodyboard, bodybuilder, bodyguard, embodier, embodiment |
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| bol (bal-, bel-, bol-) |
throw | devil **, emblem ☆, problem ****, symbol ****, symbolic *** |
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, 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 |
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| bomb | bomb | bomb **** | bombard, bombing | |
| bone | bone | bone **** | boneless, bony | |
| book | book | book ****, handbook ☆, textbook ** | ||
| boom | boom | boom *** | boom | |
| boost | boost | boost *** | booster | |
| boot | boot | boot **** | boots | |
| bore | bore | bore **, bored ***, boring *** | boredom, boringly | |
| borrow | borrow | borrow *** | borrower | |
| boss | boss | beef ***, boss **** | bossily, bossiness, bossy |
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| bottom | bottom | bottom **** | ||
| bounce | bounce | bounce *** | bounceable, bouncy | |
| bound | bound, limit | boundary *** | bound |
| bow | bow | bout ☆, rainbow ☆ | bow, bowed | |
| box | box | box ****, boxer ☆ | ||
| brace | arm | embrace *** | brace, embraceable, embracement, embracer |
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| brain | brain | brain **** | brainstorming, brainy | |
| branch | branch | branch *** | branchless, branchlike, branchy |
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| brand | brand | brand **** | brander | |
| break | break | breach **, break ****, breakdown ☆, breakfast **** | breaker, breaking, breakless, breakthrough, broken, groundbreaking, heartbreaking, heartbreakingly |
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| breast | breast | breast **** | abreast, breastfeed | |
| breath | breath | breath ****, breathe **** | breathy | |
| brev (brev-) |
short (time), brief |
abbreviate ☆, abbreviation ☆, abridge ☆, brief ****, briefly ** |
abbreviated, abbreviator, abridgable, abridgeable, abridgement, abridger, abridgment, brebity, brev, brevextensor, brevicaudate, brevity, briefness |
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| bride | bride | bride *** | bridal | |
| bright | bright | bright ****, brighten ☆, brightly ** | brightness | |
| brilli | beryl, brilliant |
brilliant *** | brilli, brilliance, brilliancy, brilliantly |
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| broad | wide, not narrow |
abroad ***, broad ****, broadcast ***, broadly ** | breadth, broadband, broadcaster, broadcasting, broaden, broadness |
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| brood (brood, beed) |
brood, fetus, hatching |
breed **, breeding ☆, brood ☆ | brooding, broodingly, inbreed, inbreeding |
| brother | brother | brother **** | brotherless, brotherlike |
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| brow | eyebrow | brow ☆ | eyebrow | |
| brute | dull, stupid, brutal |
brutal **, brutally ☆ | brutality, brute, brutify, brutish, embrute |
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| bua (bua, boo, bou) |
dwell, booth, bound |
booth ☆, husband **** | bound, husbander, husbandhood, husbandless, husbandly |
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| bubble | bubble | bubble *** | bubbly | |
| buck | buck | buck *** | bucker, butcher | |
| bucket | bucket | bucket ** | bucketeer, bucketer | |
| build | build, dwelling | build ****, builder ☆, building ****, rebuild *** | bodybuilder, buildable, buildup |
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| bulk | bulk | bulk *** | ||
| bull | bull, bovine | bull ** | bulldog | |
| bull | bubble, flask | boil ***, bowl ****, bullet *** | boiled, bullectomy, bulletless, bulletlike, bullet-like, bulliferous, ebullient, ebullism |
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| burn | burn | burn ****, burning **, burnt ** | burningly, burnout | |
| burs | pouch, purse | purse ** | bursa, bursalogy, bursar, bursary, bursectomy, bursiform, disburse |
| burst | burst | burst *** | burster, outburst | |
| bury | bury | burial **, bury **** | ||
| busy | busy | business ****, businessman ***, busy **** | busily, businesswoman | |
| butt | butt | bottle **** | butt | |
| butter | butter | butter ****, butterfly ☆ | butterless, buttery | |
| button | button | button **** | buttonophobia, buttons | |
| buy | buy | buy ****, buyer *** | buyable |
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