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Noun Concept
Categories: Types of words, Semantic relations, Ambiguity, Narrative techniques
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homophone  Heterograph  homophony  Heterography  Homophone phrase
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Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear) WordNet 3.0
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Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. Wikipedia
Word that has identical pronunciation as another word, but differs in meaning Wikidata
Stylistic device Wikidata
A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in etyomology and meaning. OmegaWiki
A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin. Wiktionary
IS A
homonym
Rhetorical device
word
DERIVATION
homophonic
DIFFERENT FROM
homonym
homophobia
homophony
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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homophone
Wikipedia
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homophone
Wikidata
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Heterograph, homophone, homophony
Wiktionary
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homophone
OmegaWiki
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homophone
Wikipedia Redirections
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