homophone

From French homophone.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒməfəʊ̯n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔməfoʊ̯n/, /ˈhɑməfoʊ̯n/

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homophone (plural homophones)

1. (semantics) A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.
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. See homonym § Usage notes for examples.

• homophonous (adjective)

• Appendix:English dialect-independent homophones

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• homophone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Ancient Greek ὁμόφωνος (homóphōnos, “speaking the same language, making the same sound, in agreement, in unison”), from ὁμός (homós, “same”) +‎ -φωνος (-phōnos, “with respect to language or sound”), a suffix derived from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, language”), in the linguistic sense coined by French philologist Jean-François Champollion in 1822 (for the adjective) and 1824 (for the noun).

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ.mɔ.fɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Homophone: homophones

homophone (plural homophones)

1. homophonous

homophone m (plural homophones)

1. (semantics) homophone

• Homophone on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

• “homophone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.