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2. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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   Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or whose meanings have diverged to the point that present-day speakers have little historical understanding: for ...

3. Wikipedia : Lists of common misspellings/Homophones

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   pair, pare and pear; palate, palette and pallet; parish and perish; passed and past; patience and patients; pause and paws; peace and piece; peak, peek and pique; peal and peel; pearl and purl; pedal, peddle and petal; peer and pier; penance and pennants; per and purr; pi and pie; plain and plane; plainer, planar and planer; plait and plate ...

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. Homophone - Wikipedia

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   Pseudo-homophones are pseudowords that are phonetically identical to a word. For example, groan/grone and crane/crain are pseudo-homophone pairs, whereas plane/plain is a homophone pair since both letter strings are recognised words. Both types of pairs are used in lexical decision tasks to investigate word recognition. [27]

6. Homograph - Wikipedia

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   Venn diagram showing the relationships between homographs (yellow) and related linguistic concepts. 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]

7. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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   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 new meaning.

8. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   There are also pairs which ignore case and include both initialisms and regular words, e.g., US and us. [citation needed] Heteronyms also occur in non-alphabetic languages. For example, 20% of the 2400 most common Chinese characters have multiple readings; [1] [2] [3] e.g., 行 can represent háng 'profession' or xíng 'OK'.

9. 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 ...