shareware
"shareware" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shareware” is uncommon English (frequency #68,633 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,633
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shareware · shareware · English
shareware · rank #68,633 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,633
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shinigami
Nearest frequency peer: shinigami (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “shareware”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sextant
sextant
31,373 corpus weight
- Shambhala
Shambhala
31,370 corpus weight
- shareware
shareware
31,368 corpus weight
- shinigami
shinigami
31,367 corpus weight
- Shoop
Shoop
31,366 corpus weight
- signifier
signifier
31,364 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shareware” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shareware |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shareware” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shareware is uncommon English at frequency #68,633 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience.".
shareware has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From share + -ware; popularized by Bob Wallace The correct English form is shareware, spelled S-H-A-R-E-W-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1A type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience.
Etymology
From share + -ware; popularized by Bob Wallace
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).