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The tonic paronyms they are the words that keep a relationship of similarity in their sound (but not in meaning): they coincide in their tonality but not in their location in the stressed syllable. For example: revolver / revolver.
Stressed paronyms are also known as accentual paronyms, as the difference between words is in the stress. What happens in these cases is that one of the two has an orthographic accent and the other does not, or both have it but in different syllable.
Conjugated verbs of two different tenses or modes are not considered tonic paronyms, even when they fit the definition, as happens with the verb ‘laugh’: I laugh (present indicative) / éhe laughed (past indefinite of the indicative).
In Spanish there are a large number of pairs of words that are paronyms because they differ in a letter, for example, a word that has 'h' with an equal that does not have it, or one that is written with 's' with respect to another that is written with 'c', or one that is written with 'b' with respect to another that is written with 'v'.
- It can serve you: Tilde diacrítica
Examples of stressed or accentual paronyms
| Stir (verb to mix) | Stir (weapon) |
| Park (green space) | Park (type of wooden floor) |
| Deposit (verb "deposit") | Deposit (storage space) |
| Bed sheet (piece of cloth) | bed sheet (biome) |
| The (Article) | The (pronoun) |
| Secretary (professional role) | Secretary (office or institution) |
| Short (short length) | Short (verb "to cut") |
| Coat (article of clothing) | Coat (South wind) |
| Artery (blood vessels) | Artery (intelligence) |
| Copper (chemical element) | Copper (verb "to charge") |
| Lack (transgression) | Lack (verb "to miss") |
| Dance (dance) | Dance (verb "to dance") |
| Circle (verb "circular") | Circle (circumference) |
| Nickname (substituting name) | Nickname (living being without feet) |
| Penny pincher (that saves) | Penny pincher (of a town in Eurasia) |
| Meat (animal food) | Meat (credential) |
| How (interrogative adverb) | How (Verb eat") |
| your (possessive pronoun) | Your (personal pronoun |
| Treatment (commitment) | Treatment (verb "to treat") |
| Finished (space of time) | Finished (verb "to finish") |
| Lies (lack of truth) | Lies (verb "lie") |
| Plus (but) | More (warning of quantity) |
| Pope (tuber) | Father (father) |
| Yes (nexus of condition) | Yes (adverb of affirmation) |
| I knew (woman of wisdom) | I knew (verb "to know") |
| Is (demonstrative pronoun) | Is (verb to be") |
| Nail (item to hold) | Nail (verb "to nail") |
| Test (literary piece) | Test (verb "to rehearse") |
| Domestic (animal) | Domestic (verb "domesticated") |
Follow with:
| Homograph words | Hyperonymous words |
| Homonymous words | Hyponymous words |
| Stop words | Synonym words |
| Homophones words | Univocal, equivocal and analogous words |
