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How to spell jewelry

What it means: Decorative items worn for personal adornment.

In a sentence: Sarah wore a shiny necklace and pretty jewelry to the party. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as jewlery or jewelery.

Also spelled: jewellery (accepted as correct).

Same family: jewel, jewels, jeweler, bejewel, bejewelled. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Jewelry” comes from the Old French word “jouel,” meaning ornament or jewel. The spelling has changed many times over the centuries, which is one reason people still misspell it today.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

Try spelling it

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