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.