This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary.
If the page can be expanded into an encyclopedic article, rather than a dictionary definition, please do so and remove this message. Otherwise, you can help by formatting it per the Wiktionary guidelines in preparation for the move.
Paronyms (in Greekπαρωνύμιον): word which are linked by a similarity of form. Hence, paronymic attraction = popular etymology.
