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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
homonymy is a noun meaning "the relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning". It carries one recorded sense.
the relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for homonymy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.