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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. File:Homograph homophone venn diagram.svg - Wikipedia

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   This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Homograph homophone venn diagram.png licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0, GFDL 2009-06-28T09:00:19Z Blazotron 944x694 (36481 Bytes) {{Information |Description={{en|1=This is an Euler diagram showing the relationships between pronunciation, spelling, and meaning of words, for example, homographs, homonyms, homophones, heteronyms, and ...

5. Homophone - Wikipedia

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   Some are homonyms, such as basta, which can either mean 'enough' or 'coarse', and some exist because of homophonous letters. For example, the letters b and v are pronounced exactly alike, so the words basta (coarse) and vasta (vast) are pronounced identically. [17] Other homonyms are spelled the same, but mean different things in different genders.

6. 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 ...

7. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   A heteronym is a homograph that is not a homophone, a word that has a different pronunciation and meaning from another word with the same spelling.Heteronym pronunciation may vary in vowel realisation, in stress pattern, or in other ways.