 False friend

In linguistics, false friends are words in different languages that look or sound similar, but differ significantly in meaning.An example is the English "embarrassed" and the Spanish "embarazada" (which means "pregnant"), the word "parents" and the Portuguese "parentes" and Italian "parenti" (which mean "relatives"), or the word "sensible", which means "reasonable" in English, but "sensitive" in French, German, Italian and Spanish.