Homonym
German, noun/homoˈnyːm/
Homonym is spelled H-O-M-O-N-Y-M (7 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written German, the 235,032nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Homonym is a German neuter noun meaning “homonym (word with the same sound and spelling as another but different meaning)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Wort, das mit einem anderen gleich lautet, aber eine andere Bedeutung und – je nach Definition – zumeist auch…”.
What does Homonym mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuterhomonym (word with the same sound and spelling as another but different meaning)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Wort, das mit einem anderen gleich lautet, aber eine andere Bedeutung und – je nach Definition – zumeist auch eine andere Herkunft hat
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Homonym
- Homonyms genitive
- Homonyme plural
- Homonymen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Homonym?
- /homoˈnyːm/
- [homoˈnyːm]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Homonym
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Homonym in German?
Homonym appears about once in every 17 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).