homonym
/ˈhɒmənɪm/
"homonym" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“homonym” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both).
Corpus desk
Index EN-homonym · homonym · English
homonym · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homonym |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhɒmənɪm/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “homonym” in English
Rare enough to double-check
homonym is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈhɒmənɪm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for homonym in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin homōnymum, from Ancient Greek ὁμώνυμον (homṓnumon), nominalized from the neuter of ὁμώνῠμος (homṓnŭmos, “homonymous”). By surface analysis, hom- + -onym. The correct English form is homonym, spelled H-O-M-O-N-Y-M.
Definition
- 1A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both).
- 2A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both).
Etymology
From Latin homōnymum, from Ancient Greek ὁμώνυμον (homṓnumon), nominalized from the neuter of ὁμώνῠμος (homṓnŭmos, “homonymous”). By surface analysis, hom- + -onym.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.