Homography
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If the language is one for which the orthography is at variance with, or unrelated to, the phonology, then one may be of course distinguish further between homography.
Example
lead in
(i) a dog's lead and
(ii) made of lead
Other languages
German Homographie Chinese 同形异义词
Reference
Lyons, John. 1968. Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.