-boy, -girl, -man, -woman
Here are some good word facts. According to sowpods:
- There are 2 prefixes that can attach to -boy, -girl, -man, and -woman and form valid words: bat, news
- There is 1 more that can attach to all but -girl: post
- 2 for all but -boy: work, sales
- And 5 for all but -woman: shop, cow, bus, school, choir
- 5 work with just -boy and -girl: home, play, paper, copy, atta
- 16 for -man and -boy: fly, gown, plow, bell, house, pot, dead, plough, high, sand, lift, link, stable, foot, herd, car
- No prefixes attach to -boy, and -woman but not -man
- A whopping 81 more strings can be prefixed to both -man and -woman, but neither of the others: patrol, committee, crafts, bats, lay, church, ambulance, yachts, states, gentle, gilds, service, anti, spokes, guilds, pitch, earth, chair, towns, ad, horse, toy, police, congress, working, space, frontiers, footplate, byre, pen, sports, jury, fire, bush, camera, door, marks, washer, fisher, sea, freed, noble, assembly, iron, business, bonds, club, rail, mad, tally, laundry, alder, free, aircraft, every, oars, draughts, kins, press, stunt, clans, super, plants, beads, fore, prize, council, country, trades, air, un, aircrafts, hench, clergy, alms, newspaper, tribes, bushel anchor, cochair, bond
- There are 22 that work only with -boy: tar, clapper, penny, street, macca, macco, call, low, tom, black, beach, po, bully, haut, boss, lady, day, dough, billy, small, tall, page
- And none that just go in front of -girl
- 7 are -woman only: wise, tire, needle, char, wash, bower, scrub
- And lastly, there are 496 prefixes that attach to -man, but not the other three.
If anyone feels like filling these into a four set venn diagram for me, that’d be super.