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How to spell enjoyable

What it means: Providing pleasure or satisfaction.

In a sentence: The birthday party was very enjoyable! ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as enjoyible or enjoyble.

Same family: enjoyed, enjoying, enjoyment, joy, joyful. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Enjoyable” comes from the verb “enjoy,” which entered English from Old French *enjoir*, meaning “to give joy to.” The suffix “-able” was added later to form an adjective meaning “capable of giving joy or pleasure.”

Patterns it uses: -able or -ible?

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