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Definition: Homograph |
HomographNoun1. Two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Homograph \Hom"o*graph\, noun. [from Greek expression "omo`grafos with the same letters; "omo`s the same gra`fein to write.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Language | Word or group of words having the same graphical form but a different meaning from another word or group of words ex. :wind 1(air)and wind 2(rotate). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Homograph |
| Non-English Usage: "Homograph" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (homograph). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Homograph" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Homograph" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
homograph | 16 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "homograph"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | لفظة متجانسة (homophone), اللفظة المتجانسة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | омограф. (various references) | |
Chinese | 同形词. (various references) | |
Czech | homograf. (various references) | |
Danish | homograf. (various references) | |
Dutch | homograaf. (various references) | |
Finnish | homografi, heteronyymi. (various references) | |
French | homographe. (various references) | |
German | homograph. (various references) | |
Greek | ομόγραφο, ομοιογράφο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | הומוגרף. (various references) | |
Hungarian | homonima (homonym), homograf. (various references) | |
Italian | omografo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omographhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | homgrafo, homógrafo. (various references) | |
Russian | гомограф, омограф. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | homograf. (various references) | |
Spanish | homógrafo. (various references) | |
Swedish | homograf. (various references) | |
Turkish | eşyazımlı sözcük, eşyazımlı, aynı yazılıp farklı anlama gelen sözcük, aynı yazılıp farklı anlama gelen. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | омограф. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "homograph": homographic, homographs. (additional references) | |
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"Homograph" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: homography, nomograph, Tomograph. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "homograph" (pronounced 'Hom"o*graph'): Accelerograph, Actinograph, Allograph, Anaglyptograph, Anagraph, Anapnograph, Anemograph, Anemometrograph, Antigraph, Apograph, Arcograph, Autochronograph, Barograph, Barometrograph, Barothermograph, Bibliograph, Brontograph, Cardiagraph, Cardiograph, Cardiosphygmograph, Cerograph, Chirograph, Chorograph, Chromograph, Chromolithograph, Chromophotograph, Chronograph, Chronophotograph, Cinematograph, Cinemograph, Comptograph, Copygraph, Cryptograph, Curvograph, Cyclograph, Dynamograph, Fluviograph, Galvanograph, Glyphograph, holograph, ideograph, kymograph, Macrograph, Magnetograph, Manograph, Marconigraph, Mechanograph, Melodiograph, Melograph, Metallograph. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-h-m-o-o-p-r" | |
-3 letters: hoorah, morpho, oompah, pogrom. | |
-4 letters: gramp, graph, groom, horah, morph, ogham, oomph, pargo, promo. | |
-5 letters: gamp, goop, gorp, gram, harm, harp, hoar, homo, hoop, hora, moor, mora, ogam, opah, pooh, poor, pram, prao, proa, prog, prom, ramp, roam, romp, room. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-h-m-o-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: homographs. | |
+2 letters: homographic. | |
+4 letters: chromatograph. | |
+5 letters: chromatographs, chromatography. | |
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