  We compare $237$ Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) spectra of the "MUSE-Wide
survey" (Herenz et al. 2017) to a suite of radiative transfer simulations
consisting of a central luminous source within a concentric, moving shell of
neutral gas, and dust. This six parameter shell-model has been used numerously
in previous studies, however, on significantly smaller data-sets. We find that
the shell-model can reproduce the observed spectral shape very well - better
than the also common `Gaussian-minus-Gaussian' model which we also fitted to
the dataset. Specifically, we find that $\sim 94\%$ of the fits possess a
goodness-of-fit value of $p(\chi^2)>0.1$. The large number of spectra allows us
to robustly characterize the shell-model parameter range, and consequently, the
spectral shapes typical for realistic spectra. We find that the vast majority
of the Ly$\alpha$ spectral shapes require an outflow and only $\sim 5\%$ are
well-fitted through an inflowing shell. In addition, we find $\sim 46\%$ of the
spectra to be consistent with a neutral hydrogen column density
$<10^{17}\,\mathrm{cm}^{-2}$ - suggestive of a non-negligible fraction of
continuum leakers in the MUSE-Wide sample. Furthermore, we correlate the
spectral against the Ly$\alpha$ halo properties against each other but do not
find any strong correlation.
