homophone

English

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Etymology

homo- + -phone

Noun

homophone (plural homophones)

1. A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin, for example: carat, caret, carrot, and karat.
2. A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.

Related terms

• homophonous (adjective)

Usage notes

A homophone is a type of homonym in the loose sense of that term (a word which sounds or is spelled the same as another). (The strict sense of homonym is a word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.) A homograph is a word with the same spelling as another but a completely unrelated meaning. Homographs are not necessarily homophones.

Translations

words with the same pronunciation

• Arabic: لفظة متجانسة (ar) (lafZa mutajānisa) f
• Catalan: homòfon (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同音詞 (cmn), 同音词 (cmn) (tóngyīncí), (of Chinese characters) 同音字 (cmn) (tóngyīnzì)

• Czech: homofon (cs) m, homofonum (cs) n
• Dutch: homofoon (nl) m
• Esperanto: homofono (eo)
• French: homophone (fr) m
• German: Gleichklang (de) m, Homophon (de) n, Homofon (de) n
• Greek: ομόφωνος (el) (omófonos) m

• Icelandic: samhljóma orð (is) n pl
• Irish: homafón (ga) m, téarma comhfhuaimneach (ga) m
• Italian: omofono (it) m
• Japanese: 同音語 (ja) (どうおんご, dōongo)
• Khmer: សូរដូច (km) (soo dooc), កល្បសព្ទ (km) (kɑlpa’sap)
• Kurdish: hevdeng (ku), homofon (ku)
• Russian: омофон (ru) (omofón) m
• Serbo-Croatian: homofon (sh) m, istozvučnica (sh) f
• Spanish: homófono (es) m
• Swedish: homofon (sv) c (1)

See also

An Euler diagram showing the relationship between these -nyms.

Different Meanings

Nym	Sound	Spelling	Category
homonym	same	same
heteronym	different	same	(cat)
homograph	not specified	same
homophone	same	different	(cat)
heterophone	different	different
synonym	different	different

• Appendix:English dialect-independent homophones

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French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA: /ɔmɔfɔn/, X-SAMPA: /OmOfOn/
• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Homophone: homophones

Adjective

homophone (masculine and feminine, plural homophones)

1. homophonous

Noun

homophone m (plural homophones)

1. homophone

See also

• Homophone on the French Wikipedia.fr.Wikipedia