jelly

1. 1.

   make into jelly

   “jellify a liquid”

   Synonymsjellify

   Broaderchange integrity

Other forms of jelly

plural

jellies·

past tense or participle

jellied

present participle

jellying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jelly

What does jelly mean?

jelly means "an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jelly?

jelly has 2 syllables: jel-ly. The stress falls on "jel". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɛli/.

What is another word for jelly?

Close synonyms include gelatin, jellify. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jelly a common word?

jelly is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.