Homonym: alternatives and connections

a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase

a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to hi…

a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it

a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page

a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades

a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted i…

a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language

a newly invented word or phrase

a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds; "‘won't’ is a contraction of ‘will not’"; "‘o'clock’ is a c…

a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the com…

(linguistics) a word that is derived from another word; "‘electricity’ is a derivative of ‘electric’"

a word that is formed with a suffix (such as ‘-let’ or ‘-kin’) to indicate smallness

a word having two syllables

the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected form…

(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent

(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent

two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation; "the word ‘bow’ is an example of a heteronym"

a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., ‘monolingual’ has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)