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How to spell jewelry

Jewelry is spelled J-E-W-E-L-R-Y. It is jewel plus RY, keeping the E of jewel: jew-el-ry.

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.

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.

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