0 a word that is pronounced the same as another word but has a different meaning or spelling, or both: --
1 a word which is pronounced the same as another word, but which has a different meaning or spelling: --
The words "so" and "sew" are homophones.
The role of phonology in reading comprehension : implications of the effects of homophones on processing sentences with referentially dependent categories.
The participants made more errors on the homophone pairs than on the control pairs.
The interference for the homophones stands in contrast to the facilitation observed for cognates.
Thus, for example, the ability orally to distinguish and apply homophones to words requires vocabulary knowledge.
In the traditional system, the contrast is unlearnable and the two words will be acquired as homophones.
The same 243 pairs were used in both the homophone judgment task and the synonym judgment task.
Both are homophones for our local informants, but variation is found between unrounded and rounded vowel use.
The chosen character and the new syllable must be homophones.
