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Is there a name for words with the same consonant sounds, but different vowel sounds? For example:
My son has been mixing up these sets of words. I'd like to find a list of them for him to practice (we homeschool him), but I don't know what to search for.
There are actually lots of these. They are called doublets.
My favorite example, which is not mentioned on that Wikipedia page, is the following:
Genre, gender, generic, and genus all come from the Latin genus meaning "kind/class" (although the word actually goes all the way back to Proto-Indo-European *gen-/*gon-/*gn- meaning "produce, beget, be born").
The word you could be looking for is variant
Definition:
1 obsolete : variable
2 : manifesting variety, deviation, or disagreement
3 : varying usually slightly from the standard form
(examples) variant readings; variant spellings
Also, from google search:
Best Answer
In the context of literary analysis, there are a few applicable terms:
In the context of studying language, John Lawler's suggestion of minimal pair is apt: two words that differ in only a single sound that serves to distinguish them, sometimes subtly.