Homophony

Homophony is when a set of words are pronounced identically, but have different meanings. It is not necessary for homophonic words to be spelled the same way, which is called homography.

Examples

meat, meet; sow, sew

Other languages

• German Homophonie
• Chinese 同音异形异义词

See Also

• Homography
• Homonymy

Reference

Lyons, John. 1968. Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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