galleryvspublishingTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#16,157
“gallery” frequency rank
#21,738
“publishing” frequency rank
37895
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature gallery publishing
Definition Galerie Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs publish

Letter map: gallery vs publishing

Shared letters muted; letters that set gallery and publishing apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. gallery runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against publishing's 10 (CVCCVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
gallery
10 ch
publishing

Role in the sentence - gallery and publishing

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: gallery is anoun and publishingaverb. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37895, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

gallery is recorded at frequency rank #16,157, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. publishing is at rank #21,738, tagged as averb, 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 37895, this pair ranks #1,578,245 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of gallery vs publishing

Shared letters: gl. Private to "gallery": aery. Private to "publishing": bhinpsu.

"gallery" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "publishing" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • galleryagllery · galelry · galery · gallerry · galleryy · galleyr · gallrey · ggallery
  • publishingpbulishing · ppublishing · pubblishing · pubilshing · publihsing · publishhing · publishign · publishingg

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "gallery" for "publishing" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "gallery" is a noun and "publishing" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "gallery" or "publishing" show up more?
"gallery" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,157 in our German list, against #21,738 for "publishing". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "gallery" vs "publishing" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "gallery" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "publishing" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,578,245 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "gallery" and "publishing" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "publishing 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 #1,578,245 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