homograph

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I believe it's called a "homograph attack", or at least that's one name for it.

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Quick take

two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair)

Meaning at a glance

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noun

two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for homograph.

noun

two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair)

Example sentences

I believe it's called a "homograph attack", or at least that's one name for it.

Turkish is a Latin charset language, but contains a few extra characters that pose a homograph risk.

Most modern browsers display Unicode domains only for TLDs that have a character set policy that prevents homograph attacks.

The alternate spelling avoids a potentially confusing homograph.

I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say it's a "solved problem" when there are four different behaviours from four separate browsers, but I'm glad each browser is taking homograph attacks seriously.

They wound [homograph] up mixing the two with Chinese ideograms setting the intended theme followed by phonetic kana to particularize pronunciation and grammar.

That does remove a large class of attacks, but there are still IDN homograph attacks possible with single-script domains, if they happen to use only characters that can be approximated in another script without mixing scripts.