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A homophone (/ ˈ h ɒ m ə f oʊ n, ˈ h oʊ m ə-/) is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning or in spelling. The two words may be spelled the same, for example rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or spelled differently, as in rain , reign , and rein .
When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb. Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing".
way, weigh and whey; we and wee; we'd and weed; we'll, weal, wheal and wheel; we're and weir; we're, were and whir; we've and weave; weak and week; wean and ween; wearer and where're; weather and whether; wee and whee; wet and whet; wheeled and wield; which and witch; while and wile; whiled and wild; whine and wine; whined, wind and wined ...
In “Only Connect,” a group of three people are tasked to figure out what four group of words have a connection before time runs out. Much like Connections, one word can have multiple meanings ...
Portmanteau: a new word that fuses two words or morphemes; Retronym: creating a new word to denote an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something else; Oxymoron: a combination of two contradictory terms; Zeugma and Syllepsis: the use of a single phrase in two ways simultaneously
A homograph (from the Greek: ὁμός, homós 'same' and γράφω, gráphō 'write') is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning. [1] However, some dictionaries insist that the words must also be pronounced differently, [ 2 ] while the Oxford English Dictionary says that the words should also be of ...
Homophones (literally "same sound") are usually defined as words that share the same pronunciation, regardless of how they are spelled. [ note 2 ] If they are spelled the same then they are also homographs (and homonyms); if they are spelled differently then they are also heterographs (literally "different writing").
Words that come from the same ancestor are called cognates. Another way of describing interlingual homographs is to say that they are orthographically identical , [ 1 ] since a language's orthography describes the rules for writing the language: spelling , diacritics , capitalization , hyphenation , word dividers , etc.