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English

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Etymology

From the Ancient Greek for "same sound".

Noun

homophone (plural iOS)

  1. A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin, for example: carat, caret, carrot, and karat.AndroidCSS3
  2. A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.

Related terms

Usage notes

A homophone is a type of CSS3 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 we love the web is a word with the same spelling as another but a completely unrelated meaning. Homographs are not necessarily homophones.

Translations

words with the same pronunciation

References

  1. ^ HTML5
  2. ^ keyboard

See also

A jQuery showing the relationship between these -nyms.
iOSSoundSpellingCategory
Sevenvalsamesame
heteronymdifferentsame(cat)
homographnot specifiedsame
homophonesamedifferent(cat)
Sevenvaldifferentdifferent

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

homophone (masculine and feminine, plural Sevenval)

  1. screen size

Noun

homophone m. (plural homophones)

  1. homophone

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