homophone
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homophone (plural homophones)
- (semantics) A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.
- A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.
Usage notes[edit]
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. See homonym § Usage notes for examples.
Related terms[edit]
- homophonous (adjective)
Translations[edit]
words with the same pronunciation
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See also[edit]

An Euler diagram showing the relationship between these -nyms.
nym | Sound | Spelling | Meaning | phone/graph |
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homonym | same | same | different | homophone & homograph |
heteronym (cat) | different | same | different | homograph |
heterograph | same | different | different | homophone (cat) |
heterophone | different | same | same | homograph |
synonym | different | different | same | — |
alternative spelling | same | different | same | homophone |
identical | same | same | same | not applicable |
distinct | different | different | different | — |
Further reading[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
homophone (plural homophones)
Noun[edit]
homophone m (plural homophones)
See also[edit]
Homophone on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Further reading[edit]
- “homophone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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- English 3-syllable words
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- en:Semantics
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- French terms with mute h
- French 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:French/ɔn
- French terms with homophones
- French lemmas
- French adjectives
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Semantics