h 4 e 1 t 1 e 1 r 1 o 1 n 1 y 4 m 3
9 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation
originBy surface analysis, hetero (“different”) + -onym (“name”). Compare Ancient Greek ἑτερώνυμος (heterṓnumos). First attested in 1885 in sense 1. The coining of this term in sense 3 (as Portuguese heterónimo) is usually attributed to Fernando Pessoa.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- mothery 15
- mynheer 15
- homey 13
- hymen 13
- mothy 13
- rhyme 13
- thyme 13
- moneyer 12
- theorem 12
- ethyne 12
- rhyton 12
- theory 12