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homophones

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homophones is the plural of homophone.

Meaning of homophone

Noun

homophone (plural homophones)

  1. A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.
  2. A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.

Questions about homophones

What is homophones the plural of?
Homophones is the plural of homophone.

Words near homophones in the dictionary

  1. homophobists
  2. homophobophobe
  3. homophobophobes
  4. homophobophobia
  5. homophone
  6. homophones
  7. homophonic
  8. homophonically
  9. homophonics
  10. homophonies
  11. homophonous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homophones (page history and authors); homophone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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