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    Default CON words

    Is there a word to describe words that start with CON, such as CONcern, CONtain etc. Or describe the CON bit of the word??

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    Default Re: CON words

    It's a prefix, but not a productive prefix (by which I mean that people don't use it to make new words in English). I've never met a word that could be used to refer to them all, except something obvious like con- words!

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