HOMOPHONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does homophone mean? 

• HOMOPHONE (noun)
  The noun HOMOPHONE has 1 sense:

1. two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)

  Familiarity information: HOMOPHONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMOPHONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("homophone" is a kind of...):

homonym (two words are homonyms if they are pronounced and spelled the same way but have different meanings)

Derivation:

homophonic (having the same sound)