The term 'the same' can be expressed in a variety of ways, such as IDEM (4 letters), ALIKE (5 letters), ONE (3 letters), DITTO (5 letters), EQUAL (5 letters), OLDSTORY (8 letters), and IDENTICAL (9 letters). IDEM is Latin for 'the same', ALIKE means 'similar or ALIKE in nature', ONE implies that two things are the same, DITTO is an informal way of saying 'the same', EQUAL means 'the same in amount, size, degree, or value', OLDSTORY is a phrase used to describe something that has been heard before, and IDENTICAL means 'exactly ALIKE'.