Paronym facts for kids
"Paronymous" redirects here. For the butterfly genus, see Paronymus.
Paronyms are words that are pronounced or written in a similar way but which have different lexical meanings. Paronyms contrast with homonyms, which are words with different meaning having the same pronunciation or spelling. Examples of English paronyms include:
- alternately and alternatively
- collision and collusion
- conjuncture and conjecture
- eclipse and ellipse
- excise and exercise
- prolepsis and proslepsis
- continuous and contiguous
- affect and effect
- upmost and utmost
- deprecate and depreciate
The term paronym can also refer to words that are derived from the same root, i.e. cognate words.
See also
In Spanish: Parónimo para niños
- -onym
- Heteronym (linguistics)
- Paronymic attraction
- Word ladder
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