homoglyphic

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adjective

Being, involving, or using the same or similar glyph(s), that is, homoglyph(s), for different characters (as for example in fonts where the letter O and the digit 0, or the letter I and the digit 1, are visually indistinguishable or nearly so).

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Meanings

adjectivehomoglyphic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBeing, involving, or using the same or similar glyph(s), that is, homoglyph(s), for different characters (as for example in fonts where the letter O and the digit 0, or the letter I and the digit 1, are visually indistinguishable or nearly so).

    [...] homoglyphic attacks, such as creating a domain name that looks like oreilly.com but uses a Cyrillic О; see Chapter 12 for more information on this.

    2017, Michael Collins, Network Security Through Data Analysis: From Data to Action, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 182
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    Most of these errors apparently result from homoglyphic confusion, but it is hard to tell which mistakes are due to the scribes and which are due to the publishers' conservative or oblivious editing.

    2016, Andrea Acri, Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia, →ISBN, page 40

Origin

From homoglyph + -ic.

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APA

homoglyphic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homoglyphic

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“homoglyphic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homoglyphic. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “homoglyphic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homoglyphic.

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