Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

homoglyphic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ho-mo-glyph-ic
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Being, involving, or using the same or similar glyph(s), that is, homoglyph(s), for different characters (as for example in fonts where the letter O and the digit 0, or the letter I and the digit 1, are visually indistinguishable or nearly so).

Example Sentences

Etymology

From homoglyph + -ic.

Word Breakdown

Derived Forms

homoglyphically

Phrases

optical character recognition

Frequently Paired Words

OCR optical character recognition scanno

Questions

What does homoglyphic mean?
Being, involving, or using the same or similar glyph(s), that is, homoglyph(s), for different characters (as for example in fonts where the letter O and the digit 0, or the letter I and the digit 1, are visually indistinguishable or nearly so).
Where does homoglyphic come from?
From homoglyph + -ic.

How to pronounce homoglyphic

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