homophone

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  1. noun 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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  • Tess couldn't be sure if it was the oblique reference to semen, or the word "homophone," that Alison thought obscene. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 01] - Baltimore Blues
  • I nominate a new medical condition - homophone dyslexia - of which Matthew Yglesias is patient zero. —  Matthew Yglesias
  • I had planned on calling the LAX (pronounced lacks by screen readers) as the Ex Lax hotel and the conference would be called Sea Sunk (look for the homophone). —  BlindConfidential
  • Relativity here is clearly just a homophone, and moral relativity is irrelevant to special or general relativity. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • The book teaches kids how to pick the correct homophone, the right verb, and when to use an apostrophe. —  TWO WRITING TEACHERS
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  1. = French homophone, etc., from Greek ὁμόφωνος, of the same sound or tone, from ὁμός, the same, + φωνή, sound, voice.
 

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/ˈhoʊməfoʊn/
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