shared vs sharp, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#37,777
“shared” frequency rank: #29,787
“sharp” frequency rank: 67564
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	shared	sharp
Definition	Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs share	so, dass es gut schneidet (zum Beispiel ein Messer oder eine Axt)

Letter map: shared vs sharp

Shared letters muted; letters that set shared and sharp apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch

shared

5 ch

sharp

Grammar separator: shared vs sharp

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: shared is averb and sharpanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67564, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

shared is recorded at frequency rank #37,777, classified as averb, pronounced […]. sharp is at rank #29,787, tagged as anadj, 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 67564, this pair ranks #536,027 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of shared vs sharp

Shared letters: ahrs. Private to "shared": de. Private to "sharp": p.

"shared" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC · "sharp" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

shared ← hsared · sahred · shaerd · sharde · sharedd · sharred · shhared · shraed
sharp ← hsarp · sahrp · shapr · sharpp · sharrp · shharp · shrap · ssharp

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "shared" and "sharp" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "shared" is a verb and "sharp" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "shared" vs "sharp" - which ranks higher?

"sharp" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29,787 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.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "shared" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "sharp" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #536,027 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"shared" and "sharp" 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 #536,027 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.