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homonym

one of a group of words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings
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Summary

homonym ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,922 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: word[2]
  • Topic's main category: Q32755126[3]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[4], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[5], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[6], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[8], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9]
  • Has characteristic: homonymy[10]
  • Different from: homophone[11], paronym[12], Homonim (szaradziarstwo)[13]
  • P14541: 1wCJEP[14]

Why It Matters

homonym has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] homonym is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . zgbk.com. zgbk.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'ca', 'ce', 'cs', 'csb',
    Isocat id → 1301, 262
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 262, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7326197|homonym (#7326197)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → homonyms
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: homonyms, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289933001|homonyms (#289933001)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  3. 16w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1wCJEP
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37444|batch #37444]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541) 2"
  4. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0201756-homonyma
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0201756-homonyma, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → homophone, paronym, Homonim (szaradziarstwo)
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → word
    Has characteristic → homonymy
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 6807, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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