Tool to generate homograph. An homoglyph is a word written in the same manner than another but being different. The generator uses homograph characters, such as a I (i uppercase) is written like an l (L lowercase) on some character fonts.
Homoglyph/Homograph Generator - dCode
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Homoglyph/Homograph Generator
Homographic words Generator
Tool to generate homograph. An homoglyph is a word written in the same manner than another but being different. The generator uses homograph characters, such as a I (i uppercase) is written like an l (L lowercase) on some character fonts.
Answers to Questions
What is an homograph?
Homographs are words that use as letters some unusual characters. Appeared with computer science, homography uses the fact that seemingly similar characters are interchangeable and understandable for a human but not for a machine (as generally words include letters of foreign alphabets).
One of the first uses is linked to the leet speak in which the characters 0, 1 or 5 are used to represent the letters O, I or S, respectively.
Example: DC0DE (Zero 0 instead of O) is a homoglyph.
How to use an Homograph?
Homographs can be used to fool computer robots, for example in captchas or for SEO. Using an homograph cancel indexation of a given word, as visually for a human there is no difference, it can be useful to avoid indexation, such as on Facebook.
How to verify an Homograph?
What is the difference between Homograph and Homoglyph?
Homoglyph is only one character, an homograph is a word made of some homoglyphs.
Source code
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