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/ˈhɒməfəʊn/
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/ˈhɑməfoʊn/
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/ˈhɔməfəʉn/
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/homofon/
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Canada:
[ˈhɒ(ː)məfoːn]
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HH OW1 M OW0 F OW2 N
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A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, semantics
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: homonym, soundalike
A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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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)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: homonym
From French homophone; equivalent to homo- (“same”) + -phone (“sound”).
Across languages
Translations
55 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Afrikaans :
homofoon
— words with the same pronunciation
Arabic :
لَفْظَة مُتَجَانِسَة
(lafẓa mutajānisa)
— words with the same pronunciation
Armenian :
նույնահնչյուն բառ
(nuynahnčʻyun baṙ)
— words with the same pronunciation
Bulgarian :
омофо́н
(omofón)
— words with the same pronunciation
Catalan :
homòfon
— words with the same pronunciation
Chinese Mandarin :
同音詞 /同音词
(tóngyīncí)
— words with the same pronunciation
Chinese Mandarin :
同音字
(tóngyīnzì)
— words with the same pronunciation
Czech :
homofon
— words with the same pronunciation
Czech :
homofonum
— words with the same pronunciation
Danish :
homofon
— words with the same pronunciation
Dutch :
homofoon
— words with the same pronunciation
Esperanto :
homofono
— words with the same pronunciation
Estonian :
homofoon
— words with the same pronunciation
Finnish :
homofoni
— words with the same pronunciation
French :
homophone
— words with the same pronunciation
Friulian :
omofon
— words with the same pronunciation
Georgian :
ომოფონი
(omoponi)
— words with the same pronunciation
German :
Homophon
— words with the same pronunciation
Greek :
ομόφωνος
(omófonos)
— words with the same pronunciation
Hindi :
समध्वनि
(samdhvani)
— words with the same pronunciation
Hungarian :
homofon (not infrequently spelled homofón)
— words with the same pronunciation
Icelandic :
samhljóma orð
— words with the same pronunciation
Ido :
homofono
— words with the same pronunciation
Indonesian :
homofon
— words with the same pronunciation
Irish :
homafón
— words with the same pronunciation
Irish :
téarma comhfhuaimneach
— words with the same pronunciation
Italian :
omofono
— words with the same pronunciation
Japanese :
同音語
(dōongo)
— words with the same pronunciation
Kashmiri :
ہَم آوٲزؠ
(ham āvạ̄z')
— words with the same pronunciation
Kazakh :
омофон
(omofon)
— words with the same pronunciation
Khmer :
សូរដូច
(soo dooc)
— words with the same pronunciation
Khmer :
កល្បសព្ទ
(kɑlpa’sap)
— words with the same pronunciation
Korean :
동음이의어
(dong'eumiuieo)
— words with the same pronunciation
Northern Kurdish :
hevdeng
— words with the same pronunciation
Northern Kurdish :
homofon
— words with the same pronunciation
Lithuanian :
homofonas
— words with the same pronunciation
Norwegian Bokmål :
homofon
— words with the same pronunciation
Norwegian Nynorsk :
homofon
— words with the same pronunciation
Polish :
homofon
— words with the same pronunciation
Portuguese :
homófono
— words with the same pronunciation
Romanian :
omofon
— words with the same pronunciation
Russian :
омофо́н
(omofón)
— words with the same pronunciation
Serbo-Croatian :
homofon
— words with the same pronunciation
Serbo-Croatian :
istozvučnica
— words with the same pronunciation
Slovene :
enakoglasnica
— words with the same pronunciation
Slovene :
homofon
— words with the same pronunciation
Spanish :
homófono
— words with the same pronunciation
Spanish :
homófona
— words with the same pronunciation
Swedish :
homofon
— words with the same pronunciation
Thai :
คําพ้องเสียง
(kam-pɔ́ɔng-sǐiang)
— words with the same pronunciation
Turkish :
sesteş kelime
— words with the same pronunciation
Turkish :
sesteş
— words with the same pronunciation
Vietnamese :
từ đồng âm
— words with the same pronunciation
Welsh :
cyfunsain
— words with the same pronunciation
Welsh :
homoffon
— words with the same pronunciation