Term: homophone: two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Broader: homonym: two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings | Unrelated: executioner: an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant
Broader: homonym: two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings | Unrelated: guinea worm disease: a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin
Broader: homonym: two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings | Unrelated: door: a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road)
Broader: homonym: two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings | Unrelated: trouble: an event causing distress or pain
Broader: homonym: two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings | Unrelated: syndicator: a businessman who forms a syndicate
Broader: homonym: two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings | Unrelated: journal bearing: the bearing of a journal
Broader: homonym: two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings | Unrelated: communalism: loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole
Broader: homonym: two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings | Unrelated: warning: notification of something, usually in advance
Broader: homonym: two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings | Unrelated: worm: any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
Broader: homonym: two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings | Unrelated: taker: one who takes a bet or wager