Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 5.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Res. 2013 Jul 18;1529:92–104. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2013.07.016

Table 1.

The list of affixes and the frequency with which each was used to construct primes for each of the three types of target.

Frequency
Complex Pseudocomplex Simplex
-al 2 2 2
-able 4 4 4
-age 4 5 4
-ance 6 6 6
-ant 5 6 6
-ard 6 5 5
-ary 7 6 6
-ate 3 3 4
-ence 3 3 3
-er 4 3 4
-ern 3 3 3
-ery 4 4 4
-ible 2 3 3
-ic 5 5 5
-ify 4 4 4
-ish 4 5 4
-ist 3 3 2
-ity 5 5 5
-ize 6 7 6
-ment 6 6 6
-ness 6 5 6
-or 4 4 4
-ous 6 5 6