Morphological Analyzer
Break English words into their morphemes — prefixes, roots, and suffixes — with linguistic glossing and type labels.
Morpheme Breakdown
Analysis Summary
Word data derived from MorphyNet (CC BY-SA 3.0, built from Wiktionary). Download the dataset (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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What is Morphology?
Morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies the internal structure of words. A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language — it cannot be broken down further without losing its meaning.
Free vs. Bound Morphemes
Free morphemes can stand alone as words (e.g., happy, dog, run). Bound morphemes must attach to another morpheme (e.g., un-, -ness, -ed).
Derivational vs. Inflectional
Derivational morphemes create new words or change part of speech (e.g., happy → unhappy). Inflectional morphemes modify grammatical properties without changing the word class (e.g., walk → walked).
Prefixes
Bound morphemes added before the root. They often change meaning but rarely change part of speech.
Roots
The core morpheme carrying the primary meaning. A word must have at least one root (also called a base or stem).
Suffixes
Bound morphemes added after the root. They may change part of speech (derivational) or grammatical features (inflectional).