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Definition: Homophone |
HomophoneNoun1. 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 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "homophone" was first used: 1843. (references) |
Etymology: Homophone \Hom"o*phone\, noun. [Compare to the French expression homophone. See Homophonous.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Language | Homophones are homonyms having the same phonic form, ex. :son-sun. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Homophone |
| Non-English Usage: "Homophone" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (homophone). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Homophone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Homophone" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "homophone": near-homophone, pseudo-homophone. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
homophone | 22 |
dictionary homophone | 3 |
homophone lesson plan | 3 |
air homophone | 2 |
homophone words | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "homophone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | لفظة متجانسة (homograph). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | омофон. (various references) | |
Chinese | 同音字. (various references) | |
Czech | homonymum (homonym). (various references) | |
Danish | homofon. (various references) | |
Dutch | homofoon. (various references) | |
Farsi | متشابه الصوت(درکلمات), همصدا, دارای تشابه صوتی . (various references) | |
Finnish | homofoni. (various references) | |
French | homophone. (various references) | |
German | homophon, gleichlautendes Wort. (various references) | |
Greek | ομόφωνο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | הומופון. (various references) | |
Hungarian | homofon. (various references) | |
Italian | omofono. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 同訓 (kun homophone). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | どうくん (kun homophone). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omophonehay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | homfono, homófono. (various references) | |
Russian | омофон (paronym). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | homofon. (various references) | |
Spanish | homófono. (various references) | |
Swedish | homofon (paronym). (various references) | |
Turkish | sesteş sözcük, eşsesli sözcük (homonym). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | омофон (paronym). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | homos. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "homophone": homophones. (additional references) | |
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"Homophone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: homephone, Homobono, Zonophone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "homophone" (pronounced 'Hom"o*phone'): Actinophone, Aerophone, Antiphone, Audiphone, Auxetophone, Biophotophone, gramophone, megaphone, Metallophone, microphone, Osteophone, Photographone, Photophone, Polyphone, Pyrophone, Radiophone, Radiotelephone, saxophone, Spectrophone, Sphygmophone, Sulphone, Xylophone. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-h-m-n-o-o-o-p" | |
-3 letters: hoopoe, phenom. | |
-4 letters: oomph, phone, phono. | |
-5 letters: hemp, home, homo, hone, hoop, hope, meno, mono, moon, mope, nome, nope, omen, open, peon, phon, poem, pome, pone, pooh, poon. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-h-m-n-o-o-o-p" | |
+1 letter: homophones. | |
+2 letters: homophonies. | |
+3 letters: phytohormone. | |
+4 letters: phytohormones. | |
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