Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shared

/ʃɛɹd/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.68 in modern English

Syllables: shared
IPA: /ʃɛɹd/

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.

verb

simple past and past participle of share

Example Sentences

""We are myth-killers, you and I, Moneo. That's the dream we share. I assure you from a God's Olympian perch that government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies.""
"It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment."

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ʃɛɹd/
British English: /ʃɛːd/

Derived Forms

nonshared preshared sharedness unshared

Phrases

a worry shared is a worry halved shared appreciation mortgage shared card shared joy is double joy shared lane marking shared neutral shared sorrow is half sorrow shared space

Synonyms

common mutual divided divided up shared out

Homonyms

sheared (cheer–chair merger) shirred (fair–fur merger)

Rhymes With

compared prepared scared declared cared aired paired repaired haired impaired spared stared

Questions

How do you pronounce shared?: The recorded pronunciation is /ʃɛɹd/.
What does shared mean?: Used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.

How to pronounce shared

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