The term "false cognate" is sometimes misused to describe false friends.

Well, Spanish is also full of amigos falsos (false cognates).

When faced with a false cognate, memorization and repetition are the keys to mastery.

In some cases, a false cognate could satisfy both options at once.

Rehabilitation used in this way is a linguistic false cognate for the Russian term reabilitatsiya.

The not so basic kinship terms mama and papa are said to comprise a special case of false cognates.

While the possibilities are truly endless, this list provides only the most insidious false cognates found in Quebec.

Finally, the claim that all such forms are "false cognates" is not widely accepted.

Many of the words in Unamunda are false cognates.

However this error can be attributed to semantic reduplication and false cognates.