homophone
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file)
Noun
Template:examples-right homophone (plural homophones)
- A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.[1][2]
- A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.
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.
Related terms
- homophonous (adjective)
Translations
words with the same pronunciation
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See also
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Noun (cat) | Sound | Spelling | Meaning | phone/graph |
---|---|---|---|---|
homonym | same | same | different | homophone & homograph |
heteronym (cat) | different | same | different | heterophone & homograph |
homophone | same | different | different | homophone (cat) & heterograph |
alternative pronunciation | different | same | same | heterophone & homograph |
synonym | different | different | same | heterophone & heterograph |
alternative spelling | same | different | same | homophone & heterograph |
identical | same | same | same | homophone & homograph |
distinct | different | different | different | heterophone & heterograph |
References
Further reading
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
homophone (plural homophones)
Noun
homophone m (plural homophones)
See also
Further reading
- “homophone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Categories:
- English terms prefixed with homo-
- English terms suffixed with -phone
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- French terms with mute h
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- Rhymes:French/ɔn
- French terms with homophones
- French lemmas
- French adjectives
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns