sha
[ʃæː]noun, interjection
sha is spelled S-H-A: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,297th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sha means “The letter Ш, ш” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sha is shas.
How many letters and syllables are in sha?
| Letters | 3: S-H-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.2 times per million words; the 18,297th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is sha?
Sha appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,297th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce sha?
- [ʃæː]
Sha has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-SHA.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with sha
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: shah.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with sha?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sha.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ash.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of sha
- shas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sha mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The letter Ш, ш.
- 2
Alternative form of shah (“king of Persia etc.”).
- 3
Alternative letter-case form of SHA (“cryptographic hash”).
interjection
- 1
dear, honey, hon
noun
- 1
A cryptographic hash produced with SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm).
- 2
Initialism of sidereal hour angle.
- 3
UKInitialism of strategic health authority.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does sha come from?
Borrowed from Russian ша (ša).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).