seared vs share, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“seared” is an adjective and “share” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#33,840
“seared” frequency rank: #642
“share” frequency rank: 34482
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	seared	share
Definition	blackened by heat; scorched; burned	A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.

Letter map: seared vs share

Shared letters muted; letters that set seared and share apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch

seared

5 ch

Role in the sentence - seared and share

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: seared is anadjective and shareanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34482, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

seared is recorded at frequency rank #33,840, classified as anadj. share is at rank #642, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ʃɛə/.

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 34482, this pair ranks #320,403 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of seared vs share

Shared letters: aers. Private to "seared": d. Private to "share": h.

"seared" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC · "share" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

seared ← esared · saered · seaerd · searde · searedd · searred · seraed · sseared
share ← hsare · sahre · shaer · sharre · shhare · shrae · sshare

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "seared" and "share" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

In ordinary English text, does "seared" or "share" show up more?

"share" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #642 in our English list, against #33,840 for "seared". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "seared" and "share".

Full dictionary entry for "seared" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "share" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #320,403 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"seared" and "share" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Seager vs seared". 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 #320,403 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.