share

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for share is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʃɛə/. Corpus data places it at rank #642 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for share, with forms such as "hsare", "sahre", and "shaer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "she", "sure", "star", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English sċearu (“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a division, detachment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cu… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is share, spelled S-H-A-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.