homoglyph

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents; thus, in character encoding terms, a character with an identical or near-identical glyph, or the glyph itself.

hŏʹmōglĭf /ˈhɒməʊɡlɪf/ en-au-homoglyph.ogg

homoglyph homoglyphs

First attested in 1938; formed as homo- (“same”) + glyph after homograph.

homograph homonym OCR optical character recognition scanno

homoglyphic homoglyphically homoglyphy

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