Merriam-Webster declared the suffix “-ism” as the word (except it’s technically not one) that best summed up 2015. ... which is even less a word than a suffix is, as their word of the year.

Note that the “less” suffix turns a noun into an adjective. To turn it back into a noun, you have to add another suffix, often “ness”: “fecklessness,” “shiftlessness,” and “guilelessness.” It would ...

It’s tempting to think of “long” as being just like “able” and “less” and “ship,” which are both words and suffixes. But “long” is not a suffix. It’s just a word.

Listening to the stress of the final syllable can help you when adding suffixes to words. Find out more in this Bitesize Primary KS2 English guide.