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"jewel" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often gem (3 letters).
Definitions
adorn or decorate with precious stones
Word origin
From Middle English juel, jewel, juwel, jeuel, jowel, from Anglo-Norman juel, from Old French jouel, joel, joïel, hence French joyau, of uncertain origin. Perhaps based ultimately on Latin gaudium (“joy”), or on Latin iocus (“joke; jest”), or according to Pihan, from Arabic جَوْهَر (jawhar). Compare Medieval Latin jocale. Displaced native Old English māþm.
Used in a sentence
“Iachimo: 'Tis plate of rare device, and jewels / Of rich and exquisite form, their values great.”
“Galveston was the jewel of Texas prior to the hurricane.”
“Wel, wel (Meander) thou art deepely read: And hauing thee, I haue a iewell ſure: Go on my Lord, and giue your charge I ſay, Thy wit wil make vs Conquerors to day.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Gem”5 letters
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