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How to spell enjoyment

Enjoyment is spelled E-N-J-O-Y-M-E-N-T.

hear iten·joy·ment/ɛn'dʒɔɪmənt/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: The pleasure felt when having a good time.

In a sentence: Playing at the park brings us so much enjoyment!

Same family: enjoy, enjoyed, enjoying, enjoyable, enjoyably. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Enjoyment” comes from the verb “enjoy,” which entered Middle English from Old French “enjoir,” meaning “to give joy to.” The suffix “-ment” is a common French and Latin ending used to turn actions into nouns, as in “movement” and “agreement.”

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