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How to spell satisfactory

Satisfactory is spelled S-A-T-I-S-F-A-C-T-O-R-Y.

What it means: Meeting expectations or requirements.

In a sentence: The cookies were satisfactory and made everyone smile. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: satisfied, satisfying, satisfaction, unsatisfactory. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Satisfactory” comes from the Latin verb *satisfacere*, meaning “to do enough” or “to make enough,” which also gives us the noun “satisfaction.” So something satisfactory doesn’t have to be amazing—it just has to do enough to meet the requirement.

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