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homophone
[hom-uh-fohn, hoh-muh-]
noun
Phonetics.a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.
a written element that represents the same spoken unit as another, as ks, a homophone of x in English.
homophone
/ ˈɒəˌəʊ /
noun
one of a group of words pronounced in the same way but differing in meaning or spelling or both, as for example bear and bare
a written letter or combination of letters that represents the same speech sound as another
``ph'' is a homophone of ``f'' in English
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of homophone1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
In its original form, the song's chorus revolved around the phrase "serving kant" – the word kant being Maltese for "singing" and a homophone for an English term that definitely doesn't mean singing.
Maybe it’s not surprising that someone who named her nursery using a provocative homophone would advocate a bit of daring.
Students in the small, remote community of Estancia, N.M., were enthusiastically engaged in a vocabulary lesson, enunciating words with a “bossy r,” as well as homophones and homonyms, and spelling them on white boards.
But the WHO decided a homophone for “new” would be too confusing.
When the principal calls her Melanie, Wang’s heroine adopts three of her Mandarin name’s homophones: Mist, who can be invisible; Basket, carrier of her parents’ dreams; and Blue, her truest self.
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When To Use
A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning, whether it’s spelled the same or not. There, their, and ٳ’r are homophones. But so are bark (the sound a dog makes) and bark (the covering of a tree).These two senses of bark can also be considered homographs. You can learn more about the difference in the next section.As long as a word has the same pronunciation as another word but a different meaning, it’s a homophone of that word.There are thousands of homophones in English, including many commonly used words, and their identical pronunciations make it so ٳ’r often confusing, even for native speakers. Autocorrect may not recognize an incorrectly used homophone when it’s technically spelled correctly, so you just have to be aware of them as best you can.
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