# shove

> English word · Verb · IPA /ʃʌv/ · frequency rank #11,965

## Definitions
1. To push, especially roughly or with force.
2. To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
3. To make an all-in bet.
4. To pass (counterfeit money).
5. To put hurriedly

## Etymology
From Middle English schoven, shoven, schouven, from Old English sċūfan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeuban, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-.
See also West Frisian skowe, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva; also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).

## Easily confused with
- **soe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-soe)
- **sov** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-sov)
- **some** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-some)
- **show** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-show)
- **sole** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-sole)
- **sore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-sore)
- **sone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-sone)
- **shows** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-shows)
- **store** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-store)
- **shown** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-shown)
- **stone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-stone)
- **Steve** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-steve)
- **smoke** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-smoke)
- **spoke** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-spoke)
- **solve** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-solve)
- **slave** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-slave)
- **stole** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-stole)
- **slope** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-slope)
- **stoke** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-stoke)
- **stove** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shove-vs-stove)

## Common misspellings (7)
`hsove`, `shhove`, `shoev`, `shovve`, `shvoe`, `sohve`, `sshove`

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