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 by Mayne Reid

Students in the small, remote community of Estancia, N.M., were enthusiastically engaged in a vocabulary lesson, enunciating words with a “bossy r,” as well as homophones and homonyms, and spelling them on white boards.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2022

Here are some common homonyms and their meanings:

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

Can I assume it was intended to demonstrate the difference between heteronyms and homonyms by placing it adjacent to John Ficarra’s hilarious essay?

From Washington Post ● May 28, 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

If you now think that you would rather confront a herd of Profoundly Outraged Elephants in a Perilously Oscillating Elevator than hear another word about homonyms, acronyms, or any other kind of nyms—well, think again.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood