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: je-wel-le-ry. The stress falls on "wel".

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.