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Homophone

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Noun

1. homophone

two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Homophone

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noun

1.

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

2.

a written letter or combination of letters that represents the same speech sound as another

'ph' is a homophone of 'f' in English

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Homophone

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noun

1.

any of two or more letters or groups of letters representing the same speech sound (Ex.: c in civil and s in song)

2.

homonym (sense 1)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Homophone

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n.

One of two or more words, such as night and knight, that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning, origin, and sometimes spelling.

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