Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

homoglyph

/ˈhoʊ.məˌɡlɪf/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ho-mo-glyph
IPA: /ˈhoʊ.məˌɡlɪf/

23

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents; thus, in character encoding terms, a character with an identical or near-identical glyph, or the glyph itself.

Example Sentences

"The homoglyphs I (uppercase i) and l (lowercase L) confused many who typed in the URL."
"The E variant of the moon sign may perhaps be regarded as a homoglyph."
"The lower case “L”, Upper case “i”, and Numeral “One” are homoglyphs."
"All the other consonant phonemes are transcribed into the homoglyphs of their IPA representations."
"The pair shown is the letter f and the guilder currency sign [ƒ]. Homoglyphs can also occur within the same writing system."

Etymology

First attested in 1938; formed as homo- (“same”) + glyph after homograph.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: homo

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈhoʊ.məˌɡlɪf/
British English: /ˈhəʊ.mə.ɡlɪf/

Inflected Forms

homoglyphs (plural)

Derived Forms

homoglyphic homoglyphically homoglyphy

Phrases

optical character recognition

Frequently Paired Words

homograph homonym OCR optical character recognition scanno allographs synoglyph

Questions

How do you pronounce homoglyph?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈhoʊ.məˌɡlɪf/.
What does homoglyph mean?: A character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents; thus, in character encoding terms, a character with an identical or near-identical glyph, or the glyph itself.
Where does homoglyph come from?: First attested in 1938; formed as homo- (“same”) + glyph after homograph.

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