homophone

From homo- +‎ -phone.

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homophone (plural homophones)

1. A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.[1][2]
2. A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.

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.

• homophonous (adjective)

An Euler diagram showing the relationship between these -nyms.

• Appendix:English dialect-independent homophones

• homophone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ.mɔ.fɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Homophone: homophones

homophone (plural homophones)

1. homophonous

homophone m (plural homophones)

1. homophone

• Homophone on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

• “homophone” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).