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. HOMONYM: One of two or more words having the same sound and often the same spelling but different meanings. Examples: quail (cower), and quail (bird) fair (appearance), fair (county fair), and fair (reasonable). HOMOPHONE: One of two or more words pronounced the same but different...

Jack-in-the-box wrote:Such words are called "homographs". HUH??????? mo its Homonym...damn

Well, is there a term for words spelled exactly the same, with possible different pronunciations. For example: wind, wound, read,bow, tick, tear. Are they a specific type of Homonymn, Homograph, or what?

They are called "homographs", or more correctly "hetronyms"...the difference is that homgraphs also SOUND the same. Hetronyms do not necessarily sound the same but ARE spelled the same.Regards to all,Martin Michaels<e-mail removed by mod - please register and provide contact info in your...

I wrote a very short story using a homograph a few years ago. It was published in a Literaty Journal. Hope you like it: One Night Stand by: lee youngblood You can tell if a man is truly a bachelor the instant you walk into his bedroom. It’s not the mislaid clothes or disheveled dresser,...

Anonymous wrote: Although Chinese syllable structure is as you suggest, this is completely different from the importance of word structure. Words in Chinese are composed of a single syllable, whereas words in English and Spanish can be composed of a large number of syllables. This distinction is...

Hundreds of homographs exist in English, MTL: bear right lean fair gill etc etc

I was making a joke out of the posts, because 'earchother' is not a word; neither is 'eachother'. What you most likely meant to write is 'each other' (two words). So when you wrote, '...they just look like earchother', we can pretty much define 'earchother' any way we want. That is what can...

Ah, yes-- I see. What we are looking for is doubled homographs that no one would really notice and edit out for style. Hmm, can't think of any more. Caffein's worn off. Good luck with it, Robert.

Greetings– I understand that this question might seem trivial or even meaningless but this list will be used to try and program a computer spellchecker in a smart(er) way. If at all possible, we need to have a complete listing of all plausible occurrences of such complete homographs. They have to...