Apsyeoxic

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Two words that appear to be spelled identically but are actually sequences of characters from different scripts are said to be apsyeoxic /æpsiˈaːksɪk/. This term is derived from the graphic similarity between the string of Roman letters apsyeoxic and the visually confusable string of Cyrillic letters арsуеохiс. The term is sometimes incorrectly applied to the comparison of individual characters. An infrequently encountered but nonetheless preferable alternative when discussing pairs of individual characters is homoglyph.

For example, ПО in Russian means "in" and pronounced /po/, while in Israeli Hebrew is read (right to left) as "(he/you) said" and pronounced /sax/.

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