jewellery
jew'el·lery/ˈd͡ʒʊ-/noun
jewellery is spelled J-E-W-E-L-L-E-R-Y, 2 syllables: jew'el·lery. The wrong spelling people search most is jewllery: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 65 of all searches for the word. Jewellery is a noun meaning “Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious…”. The plural of jewellery is jewelleries.
How many letters and syllables are in jewellery?
| Letters | 9: J-E-W-E-L-L-E-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: jew'el·lery |
| In writing | 5.5 times per million words; the 10,519th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, jewllery, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell jewellery?
Jewellery is spelled J-E-W-E-L-L-E-R-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 65 of the searches for jewellery in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is jewellery?
Jewellery appears 5.5 times per million words in written English, the 10,519th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce jewellery?
- /ˈd͡ʒuː(ə)lɹi/
- US /ˈd͡ʒʊ-/
- /ˈd͡ʒuː(ə)ləɹi/
Jewellery has 2 syllables, split jew'el·lery in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-jewellery.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Aadenboy-jewellery.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with jewellery
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: jewelry.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of jewellery
- jewelleries plural
- jewelry US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does jewellery mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 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
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Jewellery in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense personal ornamentation:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | joaillerie, bijoux |
| German | Schmuck |
| Portuguese | joias, joalheria |
| Spanish | joyería, joyas, alhajas, alhaites (disused), joyeles |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does jewellery come from?
Inherited from Middle English juelrye, from Old French juelerye, equivalent to jewel + -ery.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).