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English Heteronyms

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Name the English heteronyms (also called heterophones), which are words that have different pronunciation and meaning from another word but the same spelling. Words are in pairs and you get two answers for each word pair guessed. The type of speech and definition of each word in the pair is shown. Words sorted A-Z.

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Joelle

3 months ago

“Bee bent”? Haha.
What about defect? Extract?

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