galleryvsjoseWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: gallery is a noun, jose is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“gallery” is a noun and “jose” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#16,157
“gallery” frequency rank
#16,464
“jose” frequency rank
32621
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature gallery jose
Definition Galerie Personalpronomen 3. Person Plural Femininum Lokativ

Letter map: gallery vs jose

Shared letters muted; letters that set gallery and jose apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. gallery runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against jose's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
gallery
4 ch
jose

Grammar separator: gallery vs jose

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: gallery is anoun and joseapronoun. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32621, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

gallery is recorded at frequency rank #16,157, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. jose is at rank #16,464, tagged as apron, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 32621, this pair ranks #1,703,686 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of gallery vs jose

Shared letters: e. Private to "gallery": aglry. Private to "jose": jos.

"gallery" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "jose" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • galleryagllery · galelry · galery · gallerry · galleryy · galleyr · gallrey · ggallery
  • josejjose · joes · josse · jsoe · ojse

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "gallery" for "jose" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "gallery" is a noun and "jose" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "gallery" or "jose" show up more?
"gallery" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,157 in our German list, against #16,464 for "jose". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "gallery" and "jose". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "gallery" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "jose" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,703,686 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "gallery" and "jose" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "jose vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,703,686 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list