share
/ʃɛə/
"share" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“share” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #642. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #642
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-share · share · English
share · rank #642 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #642
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH security
Nearest frequency peer: security (-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 “share”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- perfect
perfect
99,362 corpus weight
- personal
personal
99,361 corpus weight
- security
security
99,360 corpus weight
- share
share
99,359 corpus weight
- TV
TV
99,357 corpus weight
- what's
what's
99,356 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “share” 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 | share |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃɛə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “share” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around share (IPA /ʃɛə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #642 among 54,294 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for share, with forms such as "hsare", "sahre", and "shaer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "she", "sure", "star", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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… The correct English form is share, spelled S-H-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
- 2A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
- 3A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
- 4The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
- 5The sharebone or pubis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how share appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Each of the robbers took a share of the loot.
The TV programme was cancelled because it only gained a 10% share of that night's viewing audience.
Etymology
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 cut, divide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian skar, sker (“a share in a communal pasture”), Dutch schare (“share in property”), German Schar (“band, troop, party, company”), Icelandic skor (“department”). Compare shard, shear. Doublet of eschel.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsare
- sahre
- shaer
- sharre
- shhare
- shrae
- sshare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of share - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "share", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
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.