heterophone

English

heterophone (plural heterophones)

Heterophony is very common since it can include words with a single spelling but multiple pronunciations, with regionally varying spellings and pronunciations, and closely related homeographs that are pronounced differently; for example, the four different pronunciations among six alternative spellings of ailurophile.

a word whose spelling is the same but sound differs from another’s

Nyms (with category [cat] if any)
Noun (cat)	Sound	Spelling	Meaning	phone/graph
homonym	same	same	different	homophone & homograph
heteronym (cat)	different	same	different	homograph & heterophone
homophone	same	different	different	homophone (cat) & heterograph
heterograph	different	same	same	heterophone & homograph
synonym	different	different	same	heterograph & heterophone
alternative spelling	same	different	same	heterograph & homophone
identical	same	same	same	homograph & homophone
distinct	different	different	different	heterograph & heterophone

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