gallery
gal·le·ry/ˈɡæləɹi/noun, verb
gallery is spelled G-A-L-L-E-R-Y, 3 syllables: gal·le·ry. The wrong spelling people search most is gallary: about 940 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 61 of all searches for the word. Gallery is a noun meaning “An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of important objects, especially works…”. The plural of gallery is galleries.
How many letters and syllables are in gallery?
| Letters | 7: G-A-L-L-E-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: gal·le·ry |
| In writing | 31 times per million words; the 3,052nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, gallary, about 940 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell gallery?
Gallery is spelled G-A-L-L-E-R-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 61 of the searches for gallery in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is gallery?
Gallery appears 31 times per million words in written English, the 3,052nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce gallery?
- US /ˈɡæləɹi/
- US /ˈɡælɹi/
Gallery has 3 syllables, split gal·le·ry in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-gallery.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with gallery?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as gallery from its last stressed vowel (/æləɹi/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: largely, allergy, regally.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of gallery
- galleries plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- gallerying participle, present
- galleried participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does gallery mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of important objects, especially works of art.
In the gallery are displayed genuine artifacts dug up from the site, and in the gift shop you can buy a replica as a souvenir.
- 2
An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
Near-synonyms: art dealer's, dealer's
- 3
The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
We could afford the less expensive seats in the gallery.
- 4
The spectators at an event, collectively.
The politician was clearly appealing to the gallery
- 5
The part of a courtroom, often elevated and in the rear, where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
appealing to the gallery
- 6
A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side.
elegant galleries looking out onto manicured gardens
- 7
A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
a gallery of image thumbnails
- 8
A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
the galleries of the fort
verb
- 1
To show off.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Gallery in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does gallery come from?
From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of Latin galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Israel. More at Galilee.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).