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A homograph.

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What is video in Spanish?

video=video. Same spelling, different pronunciations.


What do you call words that are spelled the same but differ in pronunciations and meaning?

Words that are spelled the same but have different pronunciations and meanings are called homographs.


What are the different pronunciations?

Something like different accents for the same word. It is different types of pronunciations for the same word.


What is a synonym and antonym and homophone for decided?

a synonym is a word with different spelling but the same meaning an antonym is a word with opposite meaning a homophone is a word having the same pronunciations with different meanings


What do you call word that have same sound same spelling but different meaning?

Homophones.


What is the name of 2 words that are spelled the same but have 2 different pronunciations for example record-verb and record-noun?

Well, technically in the example you used, "record" (noun) and "record" (verb) are"Homographs". They are words that share the same spelling but have different meanings. Since "record" (noun) and "record" (verb) also have different pronunciations, they are also "Heteronyms".But to answer your question, two words that are spelled the same but have different pronunciations are called Heteronyms.


What do you call words with the same sound but different spelling and meaning?

A homophone.


Do you call a girlfriend honey or hunny?

Its not the same.. a different spelling does matter..


What do we call words that sound the same but have different meanings spelling?

Sound-alikes or homophones are words that have varying methods of spelling, yet sound the same.


What do we call words that sound the same but have the different meanings and spelling?

Sound-alikes or homophones are words that have varying methods of spelling, yet sound the same.


What do you call those words having the same spelling but different in pronunciation and meaning?

They are homographs.


What are Words that are spelled the same with different pronunciations called?

Heteronyms has the same spelling but different pronunciation. E.g. POLISH The Polish (POH-lish) capital is Warsaw. I need to buy some black polish (PAH-lish) for my shoes.