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Definition: Heteronym |
HeteronymNoun1. Two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation (e.g. `bow'). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Heteronym |
| Non-English Usage: "Heteronym" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (heteronymous). |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
heteronym | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "heteronym"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | heteronym. (various references) | ||||
Dutch | heteroniem. (various references) | ||||
French | hétéronyme. (various references) | ||||
German | Heteronym. (various references) | ||||
Italian | eteronomia (heteronomy). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eteronymhay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "heteronym": heteronyms. (additional references) | |
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"Heteronym" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: heteronymn, Hieronym. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "heteronym" (pronounced 'Het"er*o*nym'): Allonym, Anonym, Antonym, Cryptonym, homonym, Panym, Paronym, Polyonym, Pseudonym, toponym. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-m-n-o-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: moneyer, mothery, mynheer, theorem, thereon. | |
-3 letters: emoter, ethyne, etymon, hereon, hereto, hetero, hornet, mentor, meteor, moreen, mother, nether, nother, remote, rhyton, theory, therme, thorny, throne, toneme, yeomen. | |
-4 letters: emery, emote, enemy, enorm, enter, entry, ether, henry, heron, homer, homey, honer, honey, horny, hymen, meter, metre, metro, money, monte, month, motey, mothy, north, noter. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-m-n-o-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: endothermy, hemelytron, heteronomy, heteronyms. | |
+2 letters: hymenoptera, nephrectomy. | |
+3 letters: hymenopteran, hymenopteron, nephelometry. | |
+4 letters: hymenopterans, hymenopterons, hymenopterous. | |
+5 letters: cholestyramine, hyperemotional, hypermodernist, methoxyflurane, neurochemistry. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 74 65 72 6F 6E 79 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . - . .-. --- -. -.--. -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101111 01101110 01111001 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e t e r o n y m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0074 0065 0072 006F 006E 0079 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427186718481809179 |
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