Words similar to homophones
- homemade
- homes
- homicide
- homog
- homographs
- homologs
- homologues
- homology
- homology-based
- homomeric
- homophobes
- homophobia
- homophobic
- homophone
- homophone--
- homophones
- homophonic
- homophonous
- homophony
- homoplasies
- homoplasmic
- homopolymeric
- homopolymers
- homoscedastic
- homosexual
- honesty
- hong
- hoof-print
- hoof-prints
Example sentences for: homophones
How can you use “homophones” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
In my English, as in that of most Americans, bawd/bored/board, sword/sawed/ soared , and or/oar/awe/ore are not homophones; I pronounce bawd/sawed differently from board and or/oar/ore differently from awe .
' Thus in the Chinese spoken language of that time we have two homophones, one meant `the Viet (people or kingdom),' the other simply `extreme, to exceed.
homophones: creak/creek; plain/ plane, bow/bough, tear/tare, tear/tier, roe/row, allowed/aloud , etc.; triplets: bawd/bored/board, sword/sawed/soared, cite/sight/sight ; quadruplets: write/right/rite/wright, or/oar/awe/ore --a quintuplet if you allow Aw as in US expression Aw gee!
Other substitutions do not qualify as either homonyms or homophones, but they are interesting nonetheless.
Obviously homophones usually need to be written in order to make sense, but let's experiment with the following anyway:
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