gallimaufry

Other forms of gallimaufry

plural

gallimaufries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gallimaufry

What does gallimaufry mean?

gallimaufry means "a motley assortment of things".

How many syllables are in gallimaufry?

gallimaufry has 4 syllables: gal-li-mau-fry. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for gallimaufry?

Close synonyms include odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gallimaufry a common word?

gallimaufry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.