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2. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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   Some homographs are nouns or adjectives when the accent is on the first syllable, and verbs when it is on the second. When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb.

3. 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.

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. Wikipedia : Lists of common misspellings/Homophones

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   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 and hale; hair and hare; hairy and harry; hall and haul; halve and have; hangar and hanger; hay and hey; hays and haze; he'd and heed; he'll, heal and heel; hear and here; heard and herd ...

7. 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.

8. Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - Wikipedia

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   The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, the 2007 edition of which is known as the PPVT-IV, is an untimed test of receptive vocabulary for Standard American English and is intended to provide a quick estimate of the examinee's receptive vocabulary ability. It can be used with the Expressive Vocabulary Test-Second Edition (EVT-2) to make a direct ...

9. -onym - Wikipedia

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   homonym: 1: a: a word pronounced like another, but differing in meaning or derivation or spelling—also known as a homophone (e.g. to, too, two). b: a word spelled like another, but differing in derivation or meaning or pronunciation—also known as a homograph or heteronym (lead, to conduct, and lead, the metal).