actor + -ess → actress
Source: wiktionary
-ess
//ɛs//
Synonyms for "-ess" (6 found)
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Translations
66 translations across 34 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- eshë suffix (female suffix)
- onjë suffix (female suffix)
Arabic
1 entries- ـَة suffix (female suffix)
Bengali
4 entries- আ suffix (female suffix)
- ইনী suffix (female suffix)
- ঈ suffix (female suffix)
- নী suffix (female suffix)
Breton
1 entries- ez suffix (female suffix)
Burmese
1 entries- မ suffix (female suffix)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 女 suffix (female suffix)
- 母 suffix (female suffix)
Classical Greek
1 entries- ῐσσᾰ suffix (female suffix)
Danish
1 entries- inde suffix (female suffix)
Dutch
2 entries- esse suffix (female suffix)
- in suffix (female suffix)
Esperanto
1 entries- ino suffix (female suffix)
Finnish
2 entries- tar suffix (female suffix)
- tär suffix (female suffix)
French
3 entries- e suffix (female suffix)
- esse suffix (female suffix)
- euse suffix (female suffix)
Galician
1 entries- esa suffix (female suffix)
German
1 entries- in (-trix f, -öse f) suffix (female suffix)
Greek
1 entries- ισσα suffix (female suffix)
Hebrew
2 entries- ־ה suffix (female suffix)
- ־ית suffix (female suffix)
Hindi
1 entries- नी suffix (female suffix)
Hungarian
2 entries- né suffix (wife of)
- nő suffix (female suffix)
Ido
1 entries- ino suffix (female suffix)
Interlingua
2 entries- a suffix (female suffix)
- essa suffix (female suffix)
Irish
1 entries- ban suffix (female suffix)
Italian
1 entries- essa suffix (female suffix)
Latin
2 entries- issa suffix (female suffix)
- trīx suffix (female suffix)
Norman
1 entries- êsse suffix (female suffix)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- esse suffix (female suffix)
- inne suffix (female suffix)
- ske suffix (female suffix)
Old English
1 entries- en suffix (female suffix)
Polish
2 entries- ka suffix (female suffix)
- owa suffix (wife of)
Portuguese
2 entries- a suffix (female suffix)
- esa suffix (female suffix)
Romanian
2 entries- easă suffix (female suffix)
- iță suffix (female suffix)
Russian
4 entries- а suffix (female suffix)
- е́сса suffix (female suffix)
- и́са suffix (female suffix)
- и́ха suffix (female suffix)
Swedish
3 entries- essa suffix (female suffix)
- inna suffix (female suffix)
- ska suffix (female suffix)
Ukrainian
1 entries- еса suffix (female suffix)
Volapük
1 entries- ji suffix (female suffix)
Welsh
1 entries- es suffix (female suffix)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
chanter + -ess → chantress
Source: wiktionary
duke + -ess → duchess (“female ruler of a duchy”)
Source: wiktionary
god + -ess → goddess
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.