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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.
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.
- homophonous (adjective)
words with the same pronunciation
- Afrikaans: homofoon (af)
- Arabic: لَفْظَة مُتَجَانِسَة f (lafẓa mutajānisa)
- Armenian: նույնահնչյուն բառ (nuynahnčʻyun baṙ)
- Catalan: homòfon (ca)
- Chinese:
- Corsican: please add this translation if you can
- Czech: homofon (cs) m, homofonum n
- Danish: homofon (da) c
- Dutch: homofoon (nl) m
- Esperanto: homofono
- Estonian: homofoon
- Finnish: homofoni (fi)
- French: homophone (fr) m
- Friulian: omofon m
- Georgian: ომოფონი (omoponi)
- German: Homophon (de) n
- Greek: ομόφωνος (el) m (omófonos)
- Hungarian: homofon (not infrequently spelled homofón), azonos kiejtésű, de eltérő jelentésű (és gyakran eltérő alakú) szó
- Icelandic: samhljóma orð n pl
- Ido: homofono (io)
- Indonesian: homofon (id)
- Irish: homafón m, téarma comhfhuaimneach m
- Italian: omofono m
- Japanese: 同音語 (ja) (どうおんご, dōongo)
- Kazakh: омофон (omofon)
- Khmer: សូរដូច (km) (soo dooc), កល្បសព្ទ (kɑlpa’sap)
- Korean: 동음이의어 (ko) (dong'eumiuieo)
- Kurdish:
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: homofonas m
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: homófono (pt) m
- Romanian: omofon (ro) n
- Russian: омофо́н (ru) m (omofón)
- Serbo-Croatian: homofon (sh) m, istozvučnica (sh) f
- Slovene: enakoglasnica f, homofon m
- Spanish: homófono (es) m, homófona f
- Swedish: homofon (sv) c (1)
- Thai: คำพ้องเสียง (th) (kam-pɔ́ɔng-sǐiang)
- Turkish: sesteş kelime (1), sesteş (tr)
- Vietnamese: từ đồng âm
- Welsh: cyfunsain m, homoffon m
Noun (cat) | Sound | Spelling | Meaning | phone/graph |
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identical | same | same | same | homophone & homograph |
homophone (cat) | same | different | different | homophone & heterograph |
alternative spelling | same | different | same | homophone & heterograph |
homonym | same | same | different | homophone & homograph |
synonym | different | different | same | heterophone & heterograph |
heteronym (cat) | different | same | different | heterophone & homograph |
alternative pronunciation | different | same | same | heterophone & homograph |
distinct | different | different | different | heterophone & heterograph |
Borrowed 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 1822 (for the adjective) and 1824 (for the noun).
homophone (plural homophones)
homophone m (plural homophones)
- Homophone on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
- “homophone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.