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2. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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   List of English homographs. Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning. Homographs may be pronounced the same ( homophones ), or they may be pronounced differently ( heteronyms, also known as heterophones). Some homographs are nouns or adjectives when the accent is on the first syllable, and verbs when it is on ...

3. Homonym - Wikipedia

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   The words there, their, and they're are examples of three words that are of a singular pronunciation, have different spellings and vastly different meanings. These three words are commonly misused (or, alternatively, misspelled). there – "The bow shot the arrow there," he said as he pointed. their – "It was their bow and arrow." the Mother ...

4. Homophone - Wikipedia

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   Homophone. A homophone ( / ˈhɒməfoʊn, ˈhoʊmə -/) is a word that is pronounced the same (to a varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning. The two words may be spelled the same, for example rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or spelled differently, as in rain, reign, and rein.

5. Wikipedia : Lists of common misspellings/Homophones

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   wood and would. yack and yak. yoke and yolk. yore, you're and your. you'll and Yule. These pairs become homophones in certain dialects only (mostly in American English) aahed and odd. adieu and ado. ant and aunt.

6. File:Homograph homophone venn diagram.svg - Wikipedia

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   Description. Homograph homophone venn diagram.svg. English: This is an Euler diagram showing the relationships between pronunciation, spelling, and meaning of words, for example, homographs, homonyms, homophones, heteronyms, and heterographs. Русский: Диаграмма Эйлера, показывающая отношения между ...

7. Homograph - Wikipedia

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   Homograph. Venn diagram showing the relationships between homographs (yellow) and related linguistic concepts. A homograph (from the Greek: ὁμός, homós 'same' and γράφω, gráphō 'write') is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning. [1] However, some dictionaries insist that the words must ...

8. Polysemy - Wikipedia

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   Polysemy ( / pəˈlɪsɪmi / or / ˈpɒlɪˌsiːmi /; [1] [2] from Ancient Greek πολύ- (polý-) 'many', and σῆμα (sêma) 'sign') is the capacity for a sign (e.g. a symbol, a morpheme, a word, or a phrase) to have multiple related meanings. For example, a word can have several word senses. [3] Polysemy is distinct from monosemy, where a ...

9. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of words that occur in both the English language and the Spanish language, but which have different meanings and/or pronunciations in each language. Such words are called interlingual homographs. [1] [2] Homographs are two or more words that have the same written form. This list includes only homographs that are written precisely ...