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

fuse

few budge

dust

clue

must

saw

us

their

after

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well, you have a typo, but spelled the same/sound the same but mean different=homophones

spelled differently, sound different, mean the same thing= homonyms

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Hominims

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What do you call words that sound alike and are spelled differently?

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