30 Examples of Stressed or Accent Paronyms

Tonic or Accentual Paronyms

The tonic paronyms They are the words that are related to each other 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 orthographic accent and the other does not, or both have it but in a 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 write 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'.

Examples of stressed or accent 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)	He (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 (substituent name)	Nickname (living being without feet)
Penny pincher (what saves)	Penny pincher (of a town in Eurasia)
Meat (animal food)	Meat (credential)
How (interrogative adverb)	What (Verb eat")
You (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")
More (but)	More (warning of quantity)
Dad (tuber)	Father (dad)
Yes (link of condition)	Yes (adverb of affirmation)
I knew (woman of wisdom)	I knew (verb "to know")
Is (demonstrative pronoun)	This (verb to be")
Clove (item to hold)	Clove (verb "to nail")
Test (literary piece)	Test (verb "to rehearse")
Domestic (animal)	Domestic (verb "domesticated")

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