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HOMOPHONE
homophone
(noun) two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
homophone (plural homophones)
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 notes
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.
Source: Wiktionary
Hom"o*phone, n. Etym: [Cf. F. homophone. See Homophonous.]
1. A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. Gliddon.
2. A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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