shareware
\ʃɛʁ.wɛʁ\
The verdict
“shareware” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Logiciel protégé par le copyright dont l’usage peut être limité dans le temps ou dans les fonctionnalités, à moins d’en rétribuer l’auteurice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shareware · shareware · French
shareware · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shareware |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛʁ.wɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « shareware » en français
Rare enough to double-check
shareware is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃɛʁ.wɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Logiciel protégé par le copyright dont l’usage peut être limité dans le temps ou dans les fonctionnalités, à moins d’en rétribuer l’auteurice.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for shareware in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is shareware, spelled S-H-A-R-E-W-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Logiciel protégé par le copyright dont l’usage peut être limité dans le temps ou dans les fonctionnalités, à moins d’en rétribuer l’auteurice.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.