Homophone
word that has identical pronunciation as another word, but differs in meaning From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Homophones are words that sound the same as another word but have a different meaning, and often a different spelling.[1]
Examples include:
- one, won
- pail, pale
- fore, four, for
- it's, its
- there, their, they're
- Knight, night
- which, witch
- pore, pour
- pear, pair, pare
- see, sea, C
- high, hi
- wear, where
- hare, hair
- air, heir
- whether, weather
- too, to, two
- ate, eight
- no, know
- by, buy, bye
- flour, flower
- right, write
- be, bee
- week, weak
- rains, reins
- higher, hire
- fare, fair
- prince, prints
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