homophone
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homophone (plural homophones)
- (semantics) A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.
- A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.
Usage notesEdit
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.
Related termsEdit
- homophonous (adjective)
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nym | Sound | Spelling | Meaning | phone/graph |
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homonym | same | same | different | homophone & homograph |
heteronym (cat) | different | same | different | homograph |
heterograph | same | different | different | homophone (cat) |
heterophone | different | same | same | homograph |
synonym | different | different | same | — |
alternative spelling | same | different | same | homophone |
identical | same | same | same | not applicable |
distinct | different | different | different | — |
Further readingEdit
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EtymologyEdit
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).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
homophone (plural homophones)
NounEdit
homophone m (plural homophones)
See alsoEdit
- Homophone on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Further readingEdit
- “homophone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.