Homograph vs Homoglyph - What's the difference?
homograph | homoglyph |
A word that is spelled the same as another word, usually having a different etymology, such as "bear", the animal, and "bear", to support, to tolerate, etc.
A (l) identical or nearly identical in (l) to another, but which differs in the (l) it represents.
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As nouns the difference between homograph and homoglyph
is that homograph is a word that is spelled the same as another word, usually having a different etymology, such as "bear", the animal, and "bear", to support, to tolerate, etc while homoglyph is a character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents.homograph
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(wikipedia homograph)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
Homographs are a kind of (homonym) in the loose sense of that term, i.e. a word that is either a (homophone) (same sound) or a (homograph) (same spelling). (The strict sense of homonym is a word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.) Specifically, homographs must have the same spelling, though they usually have different meanings and may be pronounced differently. * The verb are homographs with the same pronunciation and different etymological origins. * The verb are homographs with different pronunciations but close etymological origins. Such homographs are also heteronyms. * The verb are not homographs since they have different spellings.See also
(en) * polyphonehomoglyph
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Noun
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- The E variant of the moon sign may perhaps be regarded as a homoglyph .
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- The lower case “L”, Upper case “i”, and Numeral “One” are homoglyphs .
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- All the other consonant phonemes are transcribed into the homoglyphs of their IPA representations.
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- The pair shown is the letter f and the guilder currency sign [ƒ]. Homoglyphs can also occur within the same writing system.