List of English homographs, the Glossary
Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning.[1]
Table of Contents
8 relations: Dialect, Heteronym (linguistics), Homograph, Homophone, Initial-stress-derived noun, Latin, List of English words with disputed usage, Verb.
- English orthography
- Homonymy
- Lists of English words
Dialect
Dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word, 'discourse', from, 'through' and, 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships.
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Heteronym (linguistics)
A heteronym (also known as a heterophone) is a word that has a different pronunciation and meaning from another word but the same spelling. List of English homographs and heteronym (linguistics) are Homonymy.
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Homograph
A homograph (from the ὁμός, homós 'same' and γράφω, gráphō 'write') is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning. List of English homographs and homograph are Homonymy.
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Homophone
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (to a varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning. List of English homographs and homophone are Homonymy.
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Initial-stress-derived noun
Initial-stress derivation is a phonological process in English that moves stress to the first syllable of verbs when they are used as nouns or adjectives. List of English homographs and Initial-stress-derived noun are Homonymy.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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List of English words with disputed usage
Some English words are often used in ways that are contentious among writers on usage and prescriptive commentators. List of English homographs and List of English words with disputed usage are Lists of English words.
See List of English homographs and List of English words with disputed usage
Verb
A verb is a word (part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand).
See List of English homographs and Verb
See also
English orthography
- African Spelling Bee
- Alexander Gill the Elder
- American and British English spelling differences
- Apostrophe
- Asia Spelling Cup
- Burmese respelling of the English alphabet
- Chinese respelling of the English alphabet
- Cockney Alphabet
- Deseret alphabet
- English alphabet
- English orthography
- English possessive
- English spelling reform
- English terms with diacritical marks
- English th
- Ghoti
- Hard and soft C
- Hard and soft G
- I before E except after C
- List of English homographs
- List of English words containing Q not followed by U
- List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature
- List of Scripps National Spelling Bee champions
- List of the longest English words with one syllable
- Ough (orthography)
- Oxford spelling
- Pronunciation respelling for English
- Proper adjective
- Scripps National Spelling Bee
- Shavian alphabet
- Silent e
- Silent k and g
- Silent letter
- Spelling of disc
- The Chaos
- The Sound Pattern of English
- Three-letter rule
- Unifon
- William Bullokar
Homonymy
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- Capitonym
- Colexification
- Heteronym (linguistics)
- Homograph
- Homonym
- Homophone
- Initial-stress-derived noun
- List of English homographs
- Phonological change
- Polysemy
- Puns
- Vagueness
Lists of English words
- Academic Word List
- English auxiliary verbs
- English words without vowels
- Fossil word
- General Service List
- Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United Kingdom
- Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States
- Glossary of philosophy
- List of English abbreviations made by shortening words
- List of English auxiliary verbs
- List of English back-formations
- List of English copulae
- List of English determiners
- List of English homographs
- List of English irregular verbs
- List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature
- List of English words with disputed usage
- List of English words without rhymes
- List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs
- List of French words of English origin
- List of South African English regionalisms
- List of animal names
- List of closed pairs of English rhyming words
- List of commonly misused English words
- List of eponymous adjectives in English
- List of eponyms (A–K)
- List of eponyms (L–Z)
- List of homophonic abbreviations
- List of modern words formed from Greek polis
- List of portmanteaus
- List of retronyms
- List of the longest English words with one syllable
- List of words having different meanings in American and British English (A–L)
- List of words having different meanings in American and British English (M–Z)
- List of words with the suffix -ology
- Lists of English words
- Lists of English words of Celtic origin
- Lists of English words of foreign origin
- Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year
- Most common words in English
- NASPA Word List
- Names for the number 0 in English
- New General Service List
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_homographs
Also known as List of Homographs, List of heteronyms.