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Esperanto Affix Sandbox

Esperanto's affixes are fully productive: stack a prefix, a root and a few suffixes and the result is always a legal word, whether or not it has ever made it into a dictionary. Build one below and find out which kind you have made.

Prefix (optional, up to 1)

Root (pick one)

Suffixes (up to 3)

Pick a root to begin - the prefix and suffixes can wait.

How the machine works

Every tile above is a real Esperanto morpheme, and the assembly rules are the same ones a fluent speaker uses without thinking: at most one prefix, exactly one root, and up to three suffixes stacked in order. The engine composes a literal English meaning from that stack and checks it against a short list of attested dictionary words - if your combination is not on the list, it is not wrong, it is simply a word nobody has needed yet. Read how Esperanto word-building actually works for the full rules behind the sandbox.