Spelling

Jewlery or jewelry?

Jewelry is the right spelling. Jewlery is a common misspelling of it.

CorrectJEWELRY
IncorrectJEWLERY

JEWLERY swaps E and L.

Why people write JEWLERY

Two letters next to each other, often a vowel pair, are easy to swap when writing fast, and the result can still look right.

Keep the whole JEWEL: jewel + ry.

How often JEWELRY is misspelled

In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), JEWLERY appears 4 times for every 1,000 JEWELRY, about once for every 250 correct uses.

Is JEWLERY a word?

No. JEWLERY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. JEWELRY is in all three and scores 20 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.

What jewelry means

An article or articles for personal adornment.

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