jewellery

Other forms of jewellery

plural

jewelleries·

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 jewellery

What does jewellery mean?

jewellery means "an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems)".

How many syllables are in jewellery?

jewellery has 4 syllables and divides as je-wel-le-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for jewellery?

Close synonyms include jewelry. 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 jewellery a common word?

jewellery is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.