# shore

> English word · Noun · IPA /ʃɔː/ · frequency rank #4,122

## Definitions
1. Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
2. Land, usually near a port.

## Etymology
From Middle English schore, from Old English *sċora (attested as sċor- in placenames), from Proto-Germanic *skurô (“rugged rock, cliff, high rocky shore”). Possibly related to Old English sċieran (“to cut”), which survives today as English shear.
Cognate with Middle Dutch scorre (“land washed by the sea”), Middle Low German schor (“shore, coast, headland”), Middle High German schorre ("rocky crag, high rocky shore"; > German Schorre, Schorren (“towering rock, crag”)), and Limburgish sjaor (“riverbank”). Maybe connected with Norwegian Bokmål skjær.

## Easily confused with
- **soe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-soe)
- **sor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-sor)
- **some** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-some)
- **show** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-show)
- **sure** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-sure)
- **shot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-shot)
- **sort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-sort)
- **sole** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-sole)
- **sore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-sore)
- **Shri** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-shri)
- **sire** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-sire)
- **sora** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-sora)
- **sone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-sone)
- **story** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-story)
- **short** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-short)
- **shows** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-shows)
- **store** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-store)
- **shown** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-shown)
- **stone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-stone)
- **sport** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-sport)

## Common misspellings (7)
`hsore`, `shhore`, `shoer`, `shorre`, `shroe`, `sohre`, `sshore`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/shore