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Traditionally, homonym is the word used. It can be ambiguous, because sometimes it is applied to the same sound but different spelling, sometimes to the same sound and spelling but different meaning.

A less confusing term is homophone, meaning they sound alike, regardless of spelling or meaning.

Homographs are spelled the same, homosemes mean the same. Changing the prefix on any of these from homo- to hetero- means different.

"Reed" and the present tense "read" are homophonic heterographic heterosemes.

Present tense "read" and past tense "read" are heterophonic homographic heterosemes.

"God" and "deity" are heterophonic heterographic homosemes.

"Sound" (audible vibration) and "sound" (body of water) are homophonic homographic heterosemes.

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