market share
"market-share" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“market share” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The percentage of some market held by a company, country, (sub)sector or any other actor or aggregate.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | market share |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “market share” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
market share is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The percentage of some market held by a company, country, (sub)sector or any other actor or aggregate.".
Zero misspellings are on record for market share in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From market + share. The correct English form is market share, spelled M-A-R-K-E-T- -S-H-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1The percentage of some market held by a company, country, (sub)sector or any other actor or aggregate.
Etymology
From market + share.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “market share”
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- The one correct English spelling is M-A-R-K-E-T- -S-H-A-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.