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means A word that's spelled exactly like another word but differs in meaning (and sometimes pronunciation) — like 'bass' the fish and 'bass' the sound.

from Built from Greek homos, 'same,' plus graphein, 'to write' — the same pairing of parts that gives us 'photograph' (light-writing) and 'paragraph.' A homograph is literally a 'same-writing': two words wearing identical letters like a shared coat, regardless of what's going on underneath with sound or sense. It sits in a small family with homophone (same sound) and homonym (same name, used loosely for both) — Greek's way of cataloguing all the ways words can resemble each other without actually agreeing.