sha
"sha" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sha” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,428) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,428
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The letter Ш, ш.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sha · sha · English
sha · rank #18,428 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,428
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH seventeenth
Nearest frequency peer: seventeenth (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “sha”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- senseless
senseless
81,576 corpus weight
- Sermons
Sermons
81,575 corpus weight
- seventeenth
seventeenth
81,574 corpus weight
- sha
sha
81,573 corpus weight
- shortcut
shortcut
81,572 corpus weight
- Sikh
Sikh
81,571 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sha” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sha |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sha” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sha is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SI", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #18,428 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Gloss: "The letter Ш, ш.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sha in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "SI", "SS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Russian ша (ša). The correct English form is sha, spelled S-H-A.
Definition
- 1The letter Ш, ш.
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian ша (ša).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "sha" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "so". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #18,428 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.