jewelry
noun, verb
jewelry is spelled J-E-W-E-L-R-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is jewlery: about 4,620 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Jewelry is a noun meaning “US standard spelling of jewellery”. The plural of jewelry is jewelries.
How many letters and syllables are in jewelry?
| Letters | 7: J-E-W-E-L-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,878th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, jewlery, about 4,620 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 jewelry?
Jewelry is spelled J-E-W-E-L-R-Y. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for jewelry 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 jewelry?
Jewelry appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,878th 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 jewelry?
Jewelry has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Words people confuse with jewelry
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: jewellery.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of jewelry
- jewelries plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- jewelrying participle, present
- jewelried participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does jewelry mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
USUS standard spelling of jewellery.
verb
- 1
rareTo make jewelry.
- 2
rareTo adorn with jewelry or make into jewelry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).