shared vs windows, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#37,777
“shared” frequency rank: #2,937
“windows” frequency rank: 40714
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	shared	windows
Definition	Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs share	Plural des Substantivs window

Letter map: shared vs windows

Shared letters muted; letters that set shared and windows apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

6 ch

shared

7 ch

windows

Grammar separator: shared vs windows

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: shared is averb and windowsanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40714, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

shared is recorded at frequency rank #37,777, classified as averb, pronounced […]. windows is at rank #2,937, tagged as anoun, 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 40714, this pair ranks #1,500,537 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of shared vs windows

Shared letters: ds. Private to "shared": aehr. Private to "windows": inow.

"shared" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC · "windows" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

shared ← hsared · sahred · shaerd · sharde · sharedd · sharred · shhared · shraed
windows ← iwndows · widnows · winddows · windosw · windowss · windowws · windwos · winndows

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "shared" for "windows" ever safe?

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

In ordinary German text, does "shared" or "windows" show up more?

"windows" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,937 in our German list, against #37,777 for "shared". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "shared" vs "windows" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

Full dictionary entry for "shared" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "windows" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,500,537 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"shared" and "windows" 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 #1,500,537 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.