About Compound Match
A compound word is two words joined to make a third: sun and flower, rain and bow, tooth and brush. Compound Match gives you the first part and asks for the second.
How it works
Each question shows a starting word and four possible endings. Only one of them makes a proper compound. Tap it. The game shows the right answer in green, and the completed word underneath, before moving on. After ten questions you get a score.
The three wrong endings are real words too, taken from other compounds in the game. They have been checked so that none of them accidentally forms a genuine word with the starting half. If you are asked about "sun", you will not find "light" or "shine" sitting among the wrong answers.
Thinking it through
Say each pair aloud as one word. "Sunflower" sounds right. "Sunshelf" does not. Your ear knows more compounds than you might expect.
Picture the thing. Compounds usually name something concrete: a place, an object, an animal. If you cannot imagine what the joined word would be, it is probably not the answer.
Rule out the endings you can place elsewhere. If "brush" clearly belongs with "tooth" or "hair", it is unlikely to be the partner for "wind".
Do not overthink meaning. A butterfly has little to do with butter, and a ladybird is not a bird. Compounds are learned as whole words, and the logic behind them is often lost.
If two endings seem possible, choose the more everyday word.
This is a friendly game for younger players and for anyone learning English, since compounds are one of the quickest ways to grow a vocabulary. It is also one of the fastest HTML5 games here: a round takes about a minute.