"False cognates" refers to words in different languages that look or sound similar but have different meanings. They can fool people into thinking they mean the same thing, but actually, they do not.
Full definition
Contains fairly common, basic misleading high - frequency words (
false cognates).
Some ideas for categories include nouns, verbs, adjectives, cognates and
false cognates.
Point out
false cognates that may lead students to misinterpret word meaning.
You can have
false cognates that sound the same but mean different things, as well.
Does the inclusion of (mostly Brazilian) works from the Concrete and Neo-Concrete tradition create
a false cognate with the North American tradition of Minimalism, which had little or no impact in Latin America during those decades?