sharevssparkConfusable pair

Quick tell: share is a noun, spark is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“share” is a noun and “spark” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#14,236
“share” frequency rank
#36,240
“spark” frequency rank
50476
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature share spark
Definition parte recebida, quinhão gerar

Letter map: share vs spark

Shared letters muted; letters that set share and spark apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
share
5 ch
spark

Part-of-speech tell for share / spark

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: share is anoun and sparkaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50476, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

share is recorded at frequency rank #14,236, classified as anoun, pronounced /ʃɛɚ/. spark is at rank #36,240, tagged as averb.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 50476, this pair ranks #14,482 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of share vs spark

Shared letters: ars. Private to "share": eh. Private to "spark": kp.

"share" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV  ·  "spark" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sharehsare · sahre · shaer · sharre · shhare · shrae · sshare
  • sparkpsark · saprk · spakr · sparkk · sparrk · sppark · sprak · sspark

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "share" and "spark" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "share" is a noun and "spark" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "share" or "spark" show up more?
"share" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,236 in our Portuguese list, against #36,240 for "spark". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "share" and "spark". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "share" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "spark" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #14,482 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "share" and "spark" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "spark vs stack". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #14,482 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list