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share

/ʃɛɚ/noun, verb

share is spelled S-H-A-R-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 158 times per million words in written English, the 638th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, share means “A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of share is shares.

How many letters and syllables are in share?

Letters5: S-H-A-R-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing158 times per million words; the 638th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Rhymes with
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 share?

Share appears 158 times per million words in written English, the 638th 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 share?

  • UK /ʃɛə/
  • British /ʃɛː/
  • US /ʃɛɚ/

Share 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: En-us-share.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with share

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

share vs shear0 B

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with share?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as share from its last stressed vowel (/ɛəɹ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: shear, asher.

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 share

  • shares plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • sharing participle, present
  • shared participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does share mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.

    Each of the robbers took a share of the loot.

  2. 2

    A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.

  3. 3

    A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.

    Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.

  4. 4

    The action of sharing something with other people via social media.

  5. 5

    The sharebone or pubis.

  6. 6

    The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.

verb

  1. 1

    To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.

  2. 2

    To have or use in common.

    to share a shelter with another

  3. 3

    To divide and distribute.

  4. 4

    To tell to another.

    He shared his story with the press.

  5. 5

    To allow public or private sharing of resources in a network, or content on social media.

    to share a folder, a screen

  6. 6

    obsoleteTo cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate share?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of share: shr.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Share in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpart (portion of something), action (financial instrument), partage (internet: action of sharing), partager (to give)
GermanAnteil, Teil (portion of something), Aktie (financial instrument), teilen (to give), Freigabe (computing: configuration enabling sharing of…), mitteilen (to tell to another)
Portugueseparte (portion of something), ação (financial instrument), partilha (internet: action of sharing), partilhar, compartilhar, dividir (to give)
Spanishparticipación (portion of something), acción (financial instrument), dar, compartir, diñar (to give), compartición (computing: configuration enabling sharing of…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does share come from?

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”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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