jelly bean

1. 1.

   sugar-glazed jellied candy

   Synonymsjelly egg

   Broadercandy

Questions about jelly bean

What does jelly bean mean?

jelly bean means "sugar-glazed jellied candy".

What is another word for jelly bean?

Close synonyms include jelly egg. 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 bean a common word?

jelly bean is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.