homonym

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

From Literature

Another popular hashtag they use is “address book,” a near homonym for “homosexual” in Chinese, which has also spawned the offshoot keywords “female notebook” or “male notebook.”

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Washington Times

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

From BBC

It’s also a linguistic pun: the Mandarin word for “dust,” chén, is a homonym for the word “old.”

From Seattle Times