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How to spell jewel

What it means: A precious stone that is cut and polished.

In a sentence: The shiny jewel sparkled in the sunlight. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as juel or juwel.

Same family: jewels, jeweled, bejewel, jewelry, gem. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Jewel” comes from Old French *jouel*, meaning an ornament or precious stone, which itself may go back to a Latin word for “plaything” or “delight.” Over time, the word shifted from meaning a small precious object in general to specifically a gemstone used in jewelry.

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