They are discrete words, and you can discreetly erode that reality by discreetly misspelling them into a single discrete word at your own discretion.
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discreetion*
English suks and anyone trieing to defend it's honour by telling you to spell things rite is a nurd.
standardized orthography was invented to sell dictionaries
reejekt meereeyam-ooebstir, imbrais phreephorm speling
deez creets
"Discreet" is a discrete word from "discrete", but people tend to be discreet about this fact.
personally i bully the english language and its idiosyncrasies the other way around; i embrace its oddly spelled words and pronounce them exactly as they should be. for instance, at my job i sometimes write pseudocode, and then have a great time telling people about my 'p-sh-you-doo-code' and seeing how many men in the office i can make try to explain my own degree to me (it works depressingly frequently).
so yeah, as far as i'm concerned those are two different words: discreet and discrettay 
Go the other direction, discrete and discreet should be pronounced differently.
discrete now rhymes with meaty
And discreet sounds like disc-ree-ought
Discrete will be pronounced like Socrates
Yes, I'm going to intentionally misspell a word because it annoys me. You should do the same for any words that you dislike the spellings of. Who's gonna stop us‽
Don't worry about that; there's no Academie Anglaise, unlike those Francaise
My only dream is for ESL countries to each set up their own regulatory bodies for the English language specifically to codify their own homegrown "mistakes" as equal to whatever Brits and Seppos think is correct, in an effort to hasten the dissolution of English into a neo-Anglic branch of the Anglic languages
Of course, you would, as part of thy Norwegian plot... 
you can form a pretty reliable gaydar from this alone, if my various experiences on grindr are an example of anything (correcting men who have written 'discrete' in their profiles lmao)
realizing it also works as a mathdar...
Which is to say, those who don't know the difference are or are not?
hahaha I was being completely unserious but if a man knows the difference and doesn't seem math/language inclined I'd be willing to bet they've used grindr at some point specifically because that is one of the profile tags. Not trying to read into it too much because I was mainly joking but come to think of it, there is also an argument I could make from personal experience that 'straighter' men tend to default to spelling it as discrete when they mean discreet (i say straighter because lets be real, if you're on grindr looking for some ass you're nowhere near it - but it is always the blank profiles with the 'discrete - never tried this before.....will send pics only if you verify you're not within 6 degrees of knowing anyone i interact with' type of bios that spell it wrong......)
have typed too much about this now and am judging myself what have you DONE 
homophones be like
Like, the vast majority of homophones actually have a reason to be spelled differently, and actually have some way for you to remember which is which, and a lot of them are only homophones in some dialects anyways. So most homophones I don't really mind, although if others choose to merge words that I personally wouldn't, then that's their decision and I respect that.
Idk discrete and discreet are pretty separate adjectives to me. "Discrete systems" is not a spycraft class.
It is weird that "discretion" hasn't separated though
"Discrete systems" is not a spycraft class.
Yeah and a "red cup" is not a communist football tournament.
Not another one... no... no!... NO!!!
Your reasoning is sound and you have convinced me
I would appreciate you being discreet about using the word improperly, and only in a few quite discrete instances
It's really about the value of your principals
right on! this is like my personal fight against the word "helyiség". there's no such thing. nobody says that. "helység" has two discrete meanings.
Hungarian pog
i live by the old maxim, excretion is the better part of valor.
This is the only thing I remember from a book about physics I read when I was 17.