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2. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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   Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning. Homographs may be pronounced the same (), or they may be pronounced differently (heteronyms, also known as heterophones).

3. Wikipedia : Lists of common misspellings/Homophones

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   forth and fourth; foul and fowl; frees, freeze and frieze; friar and fryer; gage and gauge; gait and gate; gel and jell; gene and jean; gild and guild; gneiss and nice; gored and gourd; grade and grayed/greyed; grate and great; grays/greys and graze; grisly and grizzly; groan and grown; guessed and guest; guide and guyed; guise and guys; hail ...

4. Homonym - Wikipedia

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   A more restrictive and technical definition requires that homonyms be simultaneously homographs and homophones [1] —that is, they have identical spelling and pronunciation but different meanings. Examples include the pair stalk (part of a plant) and stalk (follow/harass a person) and the pair left ( past tense of leave ) and left (opposite of ...

5. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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   Homonym: words with same sounds and same spellings but with different meanings; Homograph: words with same spellings but with different meanings; Homophone: words with same sounds but with different meanings; Homophonic translation; Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) as a homophone or near-homophone that has as a result acquired a ...

6. Homograph - Wikipedia

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   [4] If, when spoken, the meanings may be distinguished by different pronunciations, the words are also heteronyms. Words with the same writing and pronunciation (i.e. are both homographs and homophones) are considered homonyms. However, in a broader sense the term "homonym" may be applied to words with the same writing or pronunciation.

7. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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   Standard: The algorithm for long division is usually taught in grade school. On the other hand, the algorithm for square root extraction, of which the best known pencil-and-paper form is still the one developed by Hero of Alexandria , [ 19 ] is nowadays rarely taught, even in secondary school.