Jewellery or jewelry?
In American English write jewelry; in British and Commonwealth English, jewellery. jewellery is a noun meaning “Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and…”; jewelry is a noun meaning “US standard spelling of jewellery”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) jewelry is about 2.4 times as common as jewellery.
What is the difference between jewellery and jewelry?
| jewellery | jewelry | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun, verb |
| Meaning | Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones informalAny tools, instruments, devices, etc., placed within a drill pipe | |
| Example | The jewellery was very expensive in that shop | none recorded |
| Forms | jewelleries | jewelries |
| Pronunciation | /ˈd͡ʒuː(ə)lɹi/ /ˈd͡ʒʊ-/ /ˈd͡ʒuː(ə)ləɹi/ | not recorded |
| Region | no label | US |
| In writing | 5.5 times per million words | 13 times per million words |
Sources: jewellery and jewelry in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of jewellery and jewelry
jewellery
- 1
Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones
The jewellery was very expensive in that shop
- 2
informalAny tools, instruments, devices, etc., placed within a drill pipe
- 3
The shop from which a jeweller trades or makes jewellery
jewelry
- 1
USUS standard spelling of jewellery
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, jewellery or jewelry?
jewellery appears 5.5 times per million words; jewelry 13 times per million words.
jewellery 5.5 times per million wordsjewelry 13 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search jewellery vs jewelry?
“jewellery vs jewelry” is searched about 2,400 times a month on Google and 20 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“jewelry vs jewellery”, “jewellery or jewelry”).
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