magistervssharedWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#20,334
“magister” frequency rank
#37,777
“shared” frequency rank
58111
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature magister shared
Definition Meister, Vorsteher, der Vorgesetzte, Leiter, Aufseher, Anführer Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs share

Letter map: magister vs shared

Shared letters muted; letters that set magister and shared apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. magister runs 8 letters (CVCVCCVC) against shared's 6 (CCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
magister
6 ch
shared

Role in the sentence - magister and shared

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: magister is anoun and sharedaverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58111, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

magister is recorded at frequency rank #20,334, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. shared is at rank #37,777, 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 58111, this pair ranks #875,399 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of magister vs shared

Shared letters: aers. Private to "magister": gimt. Private to "shared": dh.

"magister" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC  ·  "shared" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • magister ← amgister · maggister · magisetr · magisster · magisterr · magistre · magistter · magitser
  • shared ← hsared · sahred · shaerd · sharde · sharedd · sharred · shhared · shraed

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "magister" for "shared" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "magister" is a noun and "shared" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "magister" vs "shared" - which ranks higher?
"magister" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,334 in our German list, against #37,777 for "shared". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "magister" and "shared".

  • Full dictionary entry for "magister" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "shared" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #875,399 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "magister" and "shared" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs shared". 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 #875,399 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