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Question for ya, Bingley. Given the roots of the three terms you share (homo, phone, graph, and nym), I wonder if a homophone must have different spelling and if a homograph must have a different spelling.
If homophone means "same sound," then words that sound identical are homophones regardless of whether the spellings are identical or not. Similarly, words that are spelled the same regardless of whether the pronunciations are different are homographs.
Am I being too inclusive?
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If one goes by etymology alone, then the terms could be more inclusive, as Brandon suggests, but then you would lose two perfectly good and much needed terms and not have anything to replace them with. I suppose you could call them heterophones and heterographs if you wanted but they would be open to over-inclusiveness as well.
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Is there a -nym for words that are a different word when read backwards, like "dog" and "god," or "pot" and "top"? What's the longest that you know?
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Is there a -nym for words that are a different word when read backwards, like "dog" and "god," or "pot" and "top"? What's the longest that you know?
my latest, greatest favoritist word site (well, besides this one) offers the simple term "reversal", and says that D-E-S-S-E-R-T-S / S-T-R-E-S-S-E-D is the longest such phenomenon.
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my latest, greatest favoritist word site Share, please, Caradea!  Always looking for new word sites!
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