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Is there a word that qualifies a word as having a similar spelling to another word? Let's consider the following example:
Affect is a ___ to effect.
I know homonyms are used to identify words that have similar sounds, but it's not used to identify words with similar spelling.
A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word, but is spelled differently. Examples are dear and deer, stake and steak, and many others.
