What is the term for words that are spelled differently and have different meanings but sound the same?
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Homonyms or homophones.  These links may help.
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Main Entry:  opposite\nPart of Speech:  adjective\nDefinition:  unlike\nSynonyms:  adverse, antagonistic, antipodal, antipodean, antithetical, conflicting, contradictory, contrapositive, contrary, contrasted, corresponding, counter, crosswise, diametric, diametrically opposed, different, differing, dissimilar, diverse, facing, flip side, hostile, inconsistent, independent, inimical, inverse, irreconcilable, obverse, opposed, ornery, paradoxical, polar, repugnant, retrograde, reverse, separate, unalike, unconnected, unrelated, unsimilar, violative, vis-a-vis\nAntonyms:  identical, like, same\nSource:  Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)\nCopyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.\n\nMain Entry:  opposite\nPart of Speech:  noun\nDefinition:  unlikeness\nSynonyms:  adverse, antilogy, antipode, antipole, antithesis, antonym, contra, contradiction, contrary, contrast, converse, counterpart, foil, inverse, obverse, opposition, other extreme, other side, paradox, reverse, vice versa\nAntonyms:  alikeness, sameness\nSource:  Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)\nCopyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.\n\nMain Entry:  about\nPart of Speech:  adverb 4\nDefinition:  reverse\nSynonyms:  around, back, backward, backwards, in reverse, opposite direction, reverse, round\nSource:  Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)\nCopyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.\n\nMain Entry:  abreast\nPart of Speech:  adverb 1\nDefinition:  alongside\nSynonyms:  beside, equal, in line, level, next to, off, opposite\nAntonyms:  single file\nSource:  Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)\nCopyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.\n\nMain Entry:  across\nPart of Speech:  adjective\nDefinition:  traversing\nSynonyms:  beyond, cross, crossed, crosswise, opposite, over, transversely\nAntonyms:  uncrossed\nSource:  Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)\nCopyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.\n\nMain Entry:  adverse\nPart of Speech:  adjective\nDefinition:  unfavorable\nSynonyms:  allergic to, conflicting, contrary, detrimental, disadvantageous, down on, down side, inimical, injurious, inopportune, negative, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppugnant, ornery, reluctant, repugnant, stuffy, unfortunate, unfriendly, unlucky, unpropitious, unwilling\nAntonyms:  advantageous, aiding, beneficial, favorable, fortunate, helpful, positive\nSource:  Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)\nCopyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.\n\nMain Entry:  antagonist\nPart of Speech:  noun\nDefinition:  problem\nSynonyms:  adversary, angries, bad guy, bandit, competitor, contender, crip, enemy, foe, match, meat, opponent, opposer, opposite number, oppugnant, rival\nAntonyms:  advocate, colleague, friend, supporter\nSource:  Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)\nCopyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.\n\nMain Entry:  beside\nPart of Speech:  adverb\nDefinition:  next to\nSynonyms:  abreast of, adjacent to, adjoining, alongside, aside, bordering on, by, close to, close upon, connected with, contiguous to, ferninst, fornent, in juxtaposition, near, nearby, neck-and-neck, neighboring, nigh, opposite, overlooking, round, verging on, with\nSource:  Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)\nCopyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.\n\nMain Entry:  contradiction\nPart of Speech:  noun\nDefinition:  variance\nSynonyms:  bucking, conflict, confutation, contravention, defiance, denial, difference, disagreement, discrepancy, dispute, dissension, gainsaying, incongruity, inconsistency, negation, opposite, opposition\nAntonyms:  agreement, corresponden
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It's spelled "razing". But they're homonyms (words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings) - that may be what's confusing you.
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"Homonyms" are words which have the same sound and spelling but different meanings:\nbear (noun): If you see a bear, don´t climb up a tree because he´ll follow you.\nbear (verb): She can´t bear the sound of my guitar.\n\nring (verb): Does it ring the bell?\nring (noun): Guess what! He proposed and gave me a diamond ring. \n\n"Homophones", on the other hand, sound the same but are different in meaning and spelling:\n\nate (verb)/ eight (numeral): I can´t believe you ate eight slices of pizza in just one sitting!                 \n mail (noun): Let me check my mailbox first. \n male (noun): Males on the right and females on the left. On your  marks! Go!\n\nBut you know what? I think that dictionaries are confusing too because they consider "homonyms" and "homophones" as synonyms (cf. Webster's). And so do some Web sites (cf. Alan Cooper's Homonyms).
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Polysemy refers to cases where a lexeme (word) has more than one meaning. For example a chip can refer to a piece of wood, food, or electronic circuit: we say that the word "chip" has several different meanings in English, which are all related ("action" or "paper" are other examples of polysemous words).\n\n \n\n\n\nHomonymy refers to cases where two (or more) different words have the same sounds. For example the word "bank" can mean a financial institution or an area of ground: these are two different words in English). Homonymous words can be either homophones = same sounds, but different spellings (ex.: I/eye; bear/bare) or homographs = same sounds and same spelling (ex bank/bank; file/file)
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no, not the same accent, nor the same words
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Looks like they're called homographs ... \n\nBut here's a site with a complete explanation and a big ol' list of words! \nhttp://www.magickeys.com/books/riddles/words.html
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Gray and grey are not homonyms, they are variant spellings of the same word.
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Try "ornery" or "odd"\n\nNRT
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Not quite sure what you are asking but I am guessing you want alternative words for a particular word you specify if so it is a thesaurus that you are looking for and here is one.\n\nhttp://thesaurus.reference.com/
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Hi,\n\nI would venture that the term you are asking for is 'coining' a new phrase or term. If the newly coined term is a set of words instead of one morpheme (word), then it may be called coining a new 'fixed expression' or 'idiom', although coining something new does not necessarily guarantee that it will become part of the collective 'vocabulary' or lexico-grammatical awareness of world English dialects.
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("similar" or "same" will NOT work -- these are synonyms for the adjective "synonymous")\n\nFor the noun "synonym", try:\nequivalent, substitute\n\n(Some folks will claim that "synonym", ironically, HAS no synonyms. But that is based on a misunderstanding of what a synonym actually is. To be a synonym, a word does NOT have to have exactly the same meaning in all instances. It simply has to be able to convey the same meaning in SOME cases. If you say "I can't think of a synonym for 'obnoxious'." you could use "a substitute" or "an equivalent" in place of "a synonym" and it would convey the same sense. Thus, in this case, these words function as synonyms for "synonym".)
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These are called aglets.\n\nIt's an excellent crossword puzzle word.
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adequation, agreement, alikeness, compatibility, conformity, correlation, correspondence, equality, evenness, exchangeability, identity, interchangeability, interchangeableness, likeness, match, par, parallel, parity, similarity, synonym, synonymy
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they are called palindromes. examples:\n\nmom, HAH, etc
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now dont laugh but I think.....the dictionary. Because it sounds out the way a word is said & also gives its meaning. If you go to www.dictionary.com it also has a thesaurus that gives other words that mean the same or similar.  Happy learning :o)
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I've found a synonym for a homophone of synonym and it is accident, don't think this is the one your looking for though. For the other meaning of synonym as in words with the same meanings, there is none in the English language.