7 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
noun two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings
originFrom Latin homōnymum, from Ancient Greek ὁμώνυμον (homṓnumon), nominalized from the neuter of ὁμώνῠμος (homṓnŭmos, “homonymous”). By surface analysis, hom- + -onym.
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