homophone

== English == === Etymology === From French homophone; equivalent to homo- (“same”) +‎ -phone (“sound”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhɒməfəʊn/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈhɑməfoʊn/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈhɔməfəʉn/ (Indic) IPA(key): /homofon/ (Canada) IPA(key): [ˈhɒ(ː)məfoːn] === Noun === homophone (plural homophones) (semantics) A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin. Hypernyms: homonym (broad sense); soundalike Coordinate terms: homograph (can be coinstantial); oronym, holorhyme (soundalike phrases) A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters. ==== Usage notes ==== 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. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== homophonous (adjective) homophony near-homophone ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== Appendix:English dialect-independent homophones === Further reading === homophone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὁμόφωνος (homóphōnos, “speaking the same language, making the same sound, in agreement, in unison”), from ὁμο- (homo-, “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). === Pronunciation === (mute h) IPA(key): /ɔ.mɔ.fɔn/ Rhymes: -ɔn Homophone: homophones === Adjective === homophone (plural homophones) homophonous === Noun === homophone m (plural homophones) (semantics) homophone === See also === Homophone on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr === Further reading === “homophone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012