What 5 letter word sounds the same when you take 4 letters away?

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Whats a 5 letter word that gets shorter when you add 2 letters?

Originally Answered: What 5-letter word becomes shorter if you add 2 letters to it? Obviously, the answer is shore which becomes shorter when you add r to the end and a t after the first r. Another answer is sorte which becomes shorter (when you add r to the end and h after the s).

What English word sounds the same?

homophones

Is fish a Homograph?

This word set can be confusing, even for word geeks. The word homograph merges homos, the Greek word for “same,” with graph, “to write.” If two words are written identically but don’t share a meaning, they are homographs. Some examples are close (“to shut”) and close (“nearby”); and bass (“deep”) and bass (“the fish”).

Is refuse a Homograph?

Heteronyms are a type of homograph, which is a word that is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning. The word refuse came into use in the 1300s from the Old French word refuser, which means to reject. Refuse (REHfuse) is a noun that means trash or garbage.

How do you tell the difference between live and live?

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How do you say leave and live?

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Whats the opposite of live?

apathetic, dormant, lapsed, lose, ineffective, lost, unreverberant, latent, nonexistent, ineffectual, journey, dispirited, quit, shun, quiescent, dead, go, stop, resist, unimportant, fail, abandon, ghostlike, lethargic, not use, absent, inoperable, nonoperative, reject, expired, unworkable, die, avoid, inoperative.

What is the correct pronunciation of live?

The verb (an action word) is written ‘to live – lived – lived’. Unless it’s he/she/it in which case it is ‘lives’and the pronunciation in order sounds like: /LIV/LIVD/LIVD and /LIVZ/. i.e. I live in England. She lived in Germany for many years.

How is Levi’s brand pronounced?

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Why is live pronounced differently?

The verb “to live” comes from the Old English verb “lifian”; but the noun “life” (plural “lives”) comes from the Old English “life” — but was actually pronounced “lee-fuh” or “lee-vuh”, or something similar to that. The two words are related, and the endings -ian and -e are there for grammatical reasons.