Category:English terms suffixed with -le

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Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. churtle
  2. rumble
  3. pantle
  4. little
  5. creeple
  6. niblick
  7. hosel
  8. argle-bargle
  9. argy-bargy
  10. cripple
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. shuttle
  2. beetle
  3. kneel
  4. drawl
  5. kernel
  6. sole
  7. gamble
  8. quibble
  9. little
  10. shackle

English terms ending with the suffix -le.

Terms are placed in this category using {{af|en|base|-le}} or {{affix|en|base|-le}} (or the more specific and less-preferred equivalents {{suf}} or {{suffix}}), where base is the base lemma from which this term is derived.


This suffix has not been productive of new words since the 19th century. Many words ending in -le were formed in Middle English or are derived from words in other languages with a similar sounding ending, often -el, -elen, or -eln.

Subcategories

This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.