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Is share a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word share is a Scrabble US word. The word share is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is share a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word share is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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Yes. The word share is a Words With Friends word. The word share is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (5 found)

HARES,HEARS,RHEAS,SHARE,SHEAR,

4-letter words (17 found)

ARES,ARSE,EARS,ERAS,HAES,HARE,HEAR,HERS,RAHS,RASE,RASH,REHS,RESH,RHEA,SEAR,SERA,SHEA,

3-letter words (23 found)

AHS,ARE,ARS,ASH,EAR,EAS,EHS,ERA,ERS,HAE,HAS,HER,HES,RAH,RAS,REH,RES,SAE,SAR,SEA,SER,SHA,SHE,

2-letter words (12 found)

AE,AH,AR,AS,EA,EH,ER,ES,HA,HE,RE,SH,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 58 words from share according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of share

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Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word share. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in share.

Definitions and meaning of share

share

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʃɛə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ʃɛɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English sċearu (a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share), from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (a division, detachment), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (to cut, divide).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian skar, sker (a share in a communal pasture), Dutch schare (share in property), German Schar (band, troop, party, company), Icelandic skor (department). Compare shard, shear. Doublet of eschel.

Noun

share (plural shares)

  1. A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
  2. (finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
  3. (computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
  4. (social media) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
  5. (anatomy) The sharebone or pubis.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

share (third-person singular simple present shares, present participle sharing, simple past and past participle shared)

  1. To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
  2. To have or use in common.
  3. To divide and distribute.
  4. To tell to another.
  5. (computing, Internet) To allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English share, schare, shaar, from Old English sċear, sċær (ploughshare), from Proto-Germanic *skaraz (ploughshare), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (to cut). Cognate with Dutch schaar (ploughshare), dialectal German Schar (ploughshare), Danish (plov)skær (ploughshare). More at shear.

Noun

share (plural shares)

  1. (agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
Derived terms
  • ploughshare/plowshare
  • sharebeam
Translations

Verb

share (third-person singular simple present shares, present participle sharing, simple past and past participle shared)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

Anagrams

  • Asher, Rahes, Shear, asher, earsh, hares, harse, hears, heras, rheas, sehar, sehra, shear

Italian

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from share.

Noun

share m (plural shari)

  1. (television) percent of people watching a particular show out of the total viewing audience at a given time
  2. (finance) share (financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company)

Japanese

Romanization

share

  1. Rōmaji transcription of しゃれ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of シャレ

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish is ferr (it’s better), from Proto-Celtic *werros, from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (peak). Akin to Latin verrūca (steep place, height), Lithuanian viršùs (top, head) and Old Church Slavonic врьхъ (vrĭxŭ, top, peak). Compare Irish fearr.

Adjective

share

  1. comparative degree of mie

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English scear, from Proto-Germanic *skaraz (ploughshare).

Alternative forms

  • sharre, shzar, sher

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃar/, /ʃaːr/

Noun

share (plural shares)

  1. plowshare
Descendants
  • English: share
  • Yola: shor
References
  • “shā̆r(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English sċearu, from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō.

Alternative forms

  • schar, sharre

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃaːr(ə)/

Noun

share (plural shares)

  1. portion
Descendants
  • English: share
  • Scots: schare
  • Yola: shaar
References
  • “shār(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English share.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃeɾ/ [ˈʃeɾ]
  • Rhymes: -eɾ

Noun

share m (plural shares)

  1. (television) share of the audience

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.


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