Come now. English can be understood well enough through tough thorough thought.
Just today the NYT Strands puzzle gave a great example: you can find one set of prefixes that make each of the following rhyme, and a different set of prefixes that make them all sound different:
-ooze -oose -ews -ues -use -oes -uise
You can do this purely with prefixes ending in consonants, i.e. not by turning -use into -ouse, for example.
(spoilers for the little -ooze puzzle: for rhymes, booze choose brews blues ruse shoes cruise; for non-rhymes, snooze loose pews plagues obtuse toes guise; many others are possible, and rhyming or lack thereof may depend on accent).