sleigh/slay -- Is there a term for such a pair?

[Mark A Mandel]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:

#On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:39:10AM -0600, Gerald Cohen wrote:
#>   I received the query below. Can anyone help?  The answer is not
#> "homonym," for which both spelling and pronunciation must be
#> identical, e.g. "quail" nn. and "quail" verb).
#
#I believe _homophone_ is the usual term for words pronounced
#the same but spelled differently.

How standardized is that definition of "homonym"?

-- Mark A. Mandel