# shine vs Steine

> German confusable word pair

## The two words

### shine
*verb · IPA [ʃaɪn] · frequency rank #33,293*
scheinen

### Steine
*noun · IPA [ˈʃtaɪ̯nə] · frequency rank #3,850*
Variante für den Dativ Singular des Substantivs Stein

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/de/vs/shine-vs-steine