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paronyme

paronyme is the obsolete form of paronym.

Meaning of paronym

Noun

paronym (plural paronyms)

  1. A word derived from the same root or stem as another word; classes include cognates and naturalizations of foreign words.
    Synonyms:
    isonym
  2. (rare) A near-homophone, a word that sounds like another word (some example pairs are cognate).

Forms of paronyme

pluralparonymes

Questions about paronyme

What is paronyme the obsolete form of?
Paronyme is the obsolete form of paronym.

Words near paronyme in the dictionary

  1. paronychiae
  2. paronychial
  3. paronychias
  4. paronychium
  5. paronym
  6. paronyme
  7. paronymes
  8. paronymic
  9. paronymic attraction
  10. paronymies
  11. paronymization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paronyme (page history and authors); paronym (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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