# galilee

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #24,762

## Definitions
1. A narthex, particularly in the United Kingdom and the Church of England; a vestibule, a fully-enclosed yet porch-like structure, leading to the main body of an English ecclesiastical building.
2. In certain Syriac Christian churches, the baptistry.

## Etymology
From late Middle English galilie, from Old French galilee, from Medieval Latin galilaea, from Latin Galilaea (“Galilee”). Possibly the allusion is to Galilee being an outlying region of Biblical Palestine.

## Easily confused with
- **galley** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/galilee-vs-galley)
- **galileo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/galilee-vs-galileo)

## Common misspellings (9)
`aglilee`, `gaillee`, `galiele`, `galile`, `galillee`, `galliee`, `gallilee`, `ggalilee`, `glailee`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/galilee