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How to spell factory

Factory is spelled F-A-C-T-O-R-Y.

What it means: A place where goods are manufactured.

In a sentence: The toy car was made in a big factory. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: manufacture, plant, mill, industrial, production. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Factory comes from the Latin word 'factus,' meaning 'made' or 'done.' It originally referred to a place where merchants did business, and only later came to mean a place where goods are manufactured.

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