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Words that sound identical but spell their lives differently, like estranged twins.
means A word that's pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling and meaning, like 'flour' and 'flower.'
from Built from Greek parts: 'homos' meaning 'same,' and 'phone' meaning 'sound' or 'voice' (the same root that gives you 'phone,' 'telephone,' and 'megaphone'). So a homophone is, quite literally, a 'same-sound' — a tidy bit of Greek engineering for a linguistic coincidence.
- origin
- Greek for same sound
- classic pair
- there their and they are collide
- spelling bee
- the reason kids demand a sentence
- not same as
- homograph shares spelling not sound