Spelling
Galery or gallery?
Gallery is the right spelling. Galery is a common misspelling of it.
GALERY has one L where GALLERY has two.
Why people write GALERY
Double letters are not heard when the word is said, so it is easy to write only one. The doubling usually comes from how the word was built: a prefix that ends in the same letter as the root (ac + commodate), or a final consonant doubled before an ending (begin, beginning).
Two Ls, then -ERY: ga-LL-ery.
How often GALLERY is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), GALERY appears 4 times for every 1,000 GALLERY, about once for every 250 correct uses.
Is GALERY a word?
No. GALERY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. GALLERY is in all three and scores 11 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What gallery means
To provide with a long covered area.
More words with the same mistake
One letter where there should be two:
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