homophone

From French homophone; equivalent to homo- (“same”) +‎ -phone (“sound”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒməfəʊn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑməfoʊn/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔməfəʉn/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈhoːmoːˌfoːn/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [ˈhɒ(ː)məfoːn]

homophone (plural homophones)

1. (semantics) A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.

   Hypernyms: homonym (broad sense); soundalike

   Coordinate terms: homograph (can be coinstantial); oronym, holorhyme (soundalike phrases)

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)
• homophony
• near-homophone

• Appendix:English dialect-independent homophones

• homophone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὁμόφωνος (homóphōnos, “speaking the same language, making the same sound, in agreement, in unison”), from ὁμο- (homo-, “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 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.