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homographie

French, noun/ɔ.mɔ.ɡʁa.fi/

homographie is a French feminine noun meaning “homography” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Propriété des mots qui s’écrivent exactement pareil”.

What does homographie mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininehomography

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Propriété des mots qui s’écrivent exactement pareil. 2. Transformation permettant de passer de l’image d’un plan à la représentation de ce même plan dans une autre image.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of homographie

  • homographies plural
  • ^((h muet))\ɔ.mɔ.ɡʁa.fi\ singular plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce homographie?

  • /ɔ.mɔ.ɡʁa.fi/
  • ^((h muet))\ɔ.mɔ.ɡʁa.fi\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is homographie in French?

homographie appears about once in every 36 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).