What do you call a word with the same spelling and the same meaning, but different pronunciation if it is a verb or a noun? It doesn’t fit the definition of homonym, homophone, or homograph.
Take “rebel” as an example. As a noun it’s pronounced one way and differently as a verb, but it has the same spelling and same root meaning.
Also, are there any other examples of this occurrence?
Possible duplicate with a term for words that change pronunciation with part of speech.
English has many word pairs that are spelt alike but pronounced differently, according to whether the word is being used as a noun or as a verb. I believe the term to be initial-stress derivation.
Initial-stress derivation is a phonological process in English, wherein stress is moved to the first syllable of any of several dozen verbs when they become nouns or adjectives. (This is an example of a suprafix.) It is gradually becoming more standardized in some English dialects but is not present in all, and the list of affected words differs from area to area, and whether a word is used metaphorically or not. At least 170 verb-noun (or adjective) pairs exist.
Here is a list of some examples:
NOUN VERB
CONduct conDUCT
ATTribute attrIBute
COMbat comBAT
CONflict conFLICT
CONtest conTEST
CONtract conTRACT
DEcrease deCREASE
EScort esCORT
IMpact imPACT
INcrease inCREASE
INsult inSULT
OBject obJECT
PERmit perMIT
PREsent preSENT
PROceed proCEED
PROgress proGRESS
PROject proJECT
REbel reBEL
REfill reFILL
REfund reFUND
REject reJECT
REpeat rePEAT
SUBject subJECT
SUSpect susPECT
