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 May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “shareware” sits in French frequency
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.
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Using “shareware”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-H-A-R-E-W-A-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃɛʁ.wɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.