Words like "bat," "desert," "wind," and "clip" all have multiple meanings but are confusingly spelled the same way.

China’s popular social media platform Weibo is cracking down on the use of homonyms and deliberately misspelt words to evade the country’s strict online censorship. The Twitter-like service said in a ...

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Everyone knows what synonyms and antonyms are (and just in case you don't, synonyms are words that mean the same thing as another word, and antonyms are words that mean the opposite). But do you know ...

Homophones and homonyms are words that sound the same but have different meanings. Homonyms are words that are pronounced and spelt the same way but have different meanings. Like the word, ‘wear’. You ...

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Homonyms are words that sound like one another but have different meanings. The word “Homonym” comes from the prefix “Homo” which means the same, and the suffix “-nym” which means name. Example: The ...

Learn English words that sound and/or look the same but have different meanings. The 'Bad English Made Better' minipods are short and simple English grammar lessons. Homonym means words that sound or ...