Paronym

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A paronymous word.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A word derived from the same root, or with the same sound, as another word.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A paronymous word.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A word which is a derivative from another.
  • n. A word of one language which translates a word of another with only a difference of termination or other slight change, as English canal for the Latin canalis: opposed to heteronym.
    • Word Usage
    "My listings like "looking to get tarred and pleasured" and "Searching for a heroine to do the paronym of this sentence's lexical subject" kept getting flagged."
    Variant
    paronyme   
     
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