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homoglyph

noun
/ˈhɒməʊɡlɪf/UK

Etymology

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

  1. derived from γλυφή — “carving”
  2. borrowed from glyphe
  3. prefixed as homoglyph — “homo + glyph”

Definitions

  1. A character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in…

    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.

    • The homoglyphs I (uppercase i) and l (lowercase L) confused many who typed in the URL.
    • The E variant of the moon sign may perhaps be regarded as a homoglyph.
    • The lower case “L”, Upper case “i”, and Numeral “One” are homoglyphs.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for homoglyph. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA