Homophone

Homophones are words that sound the same as another word but have a different meaning, and often a different spelling.

Examples include:

• one, won
• pail, pale
• fore, four, for
• it's, its
• there, their, they're
• Knight, night
• which, witch
• pore, pour
• pear, pair, pare
• see, sea, C
• high, hi
• wear, where
• hare, hair
• air, heir
• whether, weather
• too, to, two
• ate, eight
• no, know
• by, buy, bye
• flour, flower
• right, write
• be, bee
• week, weak
• rains, reins
• higher, hire
• fare, fair

Homophone Media

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  Venn diagram showing the relationships between homophones (blue circle) and related linguistic concepts

Related pages

• Homonym
• Homograph
• Polysemy
• Synonym -a different word for the same or very similar meaning