# shone vs showed

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### shone
*verb · IPA /ʃɒn/ · frequency rank #21,656*
simple past and past participle of shine

### showed
*verb · IPA /ˈʃəʊd/ · frequency rank #1,468*
simple past of show

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