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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 .
Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning. Homographs may be pronounced the same ( homophones ), or they may be pronounced differently ( heteronyms , also known as heterophones).
Homonym: words with same sounds and same spellings but with different meanings; Homograph: words with same spellings but with different meanings; Homophone: words with same sounds but with different meanings; Homophonic translation; Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) as a homophone or near-homophone that has as a result acquired a ...
Many words (spelled correctly) are confused with another word which sounds the same or is spelled similarly. These are known as homophones. This list does not include place names, such as Gaul (gall) or Greece (grease).
Such homophones can only arise when the word without a historic /l/ also has the THOUGHT-NORTH-FORCE vowel in a morpheme-internal position, as in morpheme-final positions it will be pronounced as [ɔə] rather than [oː], thus Paul's ([poːz]) and paws ([pɔəz]), bald ([boːd]) and bored ([bɔəd]) etc remain distinct.
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