enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forms_of_word_play

   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 ...

3. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_homographs

   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). Some homographs are nouns or adjectives when the accent is on the first syllable, and verbs when it is on the second.

4. Homonym - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym

   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. Homophone - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophone

   The term homophone sometimes applies to units longer or shorter than words, for example a phrase, letter, or groups of letters which are pronounced the same as a counterpart. Any unit with this property is said to be homophonous (/ h ə ˈ m ɒ f ən ə s /). Homophones that are spelled the same are both homographs and homonyms.

6. Wikipedia : Lists of common misspellings/Homophones

   en.wikipedia.org/.../Homophones

   aahed and odd; adieu and ado; ant and aunt; aural and oral; err becomes the same as ere, air and heir; marry and merry; rout and route; seated and seeded; shone and shown; tidal and title; trader and traitor

7. Homograph - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homograph

   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 also be pronounced differently, [ 2 ] while the Oxford English Dictionary says that the words should also be of ...

8. File:Homograph homophone venn diagram.png - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Homograph_homophone...

   Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate; Pages for logged out editors learn more

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

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Homograph_homophone...

   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 ...