homonym

He included the bite mark for scale to set the apple apart from similar round fruit like cherries -- learning only later it was a homonym for the computer term "byte".

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

“This is really problematic,” Trinkle says, pointing out a word that has a homonym with a similar definition.

From Washington Times ● May 29, 2023

The other constant is a sticky rice cake or nian gao, a homonym for "grow higher every year".

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2023

In Beijing, students at Tsinghua University raised signs showing a math equation devised by the Russian physicist Alexander Friedmann, whose surname in Chinese is a homonym for “free man.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2022

Besides, at the same early period, under the almost homonym of “corragh,” it floated—still floats—on the waters of the Lerne, far west of anywhere the Romans ever went.

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne

Here are some common homonyms and their meanings:

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

One such riddle relies on synonyms and homonyms, requiring the solver to climb through both literal and metaphorical definitions to arrive at the eventual answer: poetry itself.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2021

A young man biked around the court wearing a pig mask and military hat, referencing homonyms for the accused TV host’s name.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2020

The homonyms apparently provide for a cheeky play on words for students at the University of Memphis, a state school in the same southern city.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2020

This is because POE and Poe are homonyms, which means they are two different words that are pronounced the same way.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood