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jury

/ˈd͡ʒʊɹi/noun, verb, adjective

jury is spelled J-U-R-Y: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 31 times per million words in written English, the 3,052nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jury means “A group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of jury is juries.

How many letters and syllables are in jury?

Letters4: J-U-R-Y
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing31 times per million words; the 3,052nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is jury?

Jury appears 31 times per million words in written English, the 3,052nd 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 jury?

  • UK /ˈd͡ʒʊəɹi/
  • UK /ˈd͡ʒɔːɹi/
  • US /ˈd͡ʒʊɹi/

Jury has 2 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). Recordings: En-us-jury.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with jury

Sounds like: Jewry (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with jury?

5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as jury from its last stressed vowel (/ʊɹi/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of jury

  • juries plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • jurying participle, present
  • juried participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does jury mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law.

  2. 2

    A group of judges in a competition.

  3. 3

    slangThe audience attending the first night of a performance, whose reaction may determine whether it succeeds or fails.

verb

  1. 1

    To judge by means of a jury.

adjective

  1. 1

    For temporary use; applied to a temporary contrivance.

    jury mast

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Jury in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchjury (law: group in a court of law), de fortune ((nautical) for temporary use)
GermanGeschworene, Jury, Geschworenenjury, Jurie, die Geschworenen, Gruppe der Geschworenen (law: group in a court of law)
Portuguesejúri (law: group in a court of law), banca (group of judges in a competition)
Spanishjurado, juradamen (law: group in a court of law), juezamen, judgadoramen (group of judges in a competition)

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 jury come from?

From Middle English jure, from Anglo-Norman juree, from Medieval Latin iūrāta, from Latin iūrō (“to swear or take an oath”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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