Confusable

A confusible or confusable is a word or phrase that may be confused with another, such as complement/compliment or principle/principal. Such confusion may be due to similarities in spelling or pronunciation, such as desert/dessert or if it's a homophone, such as each of the first two examples above.

See also

• Context
• False friend

External links

• "Commonly Confused Words" Collins Dictionaries
• "Commonly confused words" Oxford Dictionaries

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