homophone

But while her lyrics describe situations both grave and dangerous—the record’s title is a homophone for “violence”—her words are peppered with bizarre humor and images that aren’t easy to decode.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The name 99 Ranch Market comes from the lucky number 99, which is a homophone for the word “long-lasting” in Chinese.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

A teacher hoisted a huge sunflower made from dozens of balloons -- the plant's name in Mandarin is a homophone for a Chinese idiom about success.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

But the WHO decided a homophone for “new” would be too confusing.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021

Such words are needed, and if a homophone were thus specialized in some department of life or thought, then a slight differential pronunciation would be readily adopted.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Robert Seymour Bridges

Here are some common homophones and their meanings:

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

And I argue that even though he’s world-famous and globally acclaimed, he’s really underrated for the kind of sophisticated nuanced deployment of homophones, metonymy, simile, metaphor, braggadocio, allusion.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2019

Are you good at phrases that incorporate complicated Mandarin homophones?

From The Guardian ● May 15, 2019

Kay and Kaye, thirty and thirty-one, are not related or married: their last names happen to be homophones.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019

But this is beyond the present purpose, which is merely to exhibit the tendency which this so-called degradation has to create homophones.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Robert Seymour Bridges