homophone

Example Sentences

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

From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2021

It was also a homophone for “turn,” which fed into the group’s idea of “turning around and moving forward to face the challenges head-on,” according to Tern’s website.

From The Verge • Feb. 11, 2021

Pi, which can be used to calculate various geometric features of a circle, is also obviously a homophone to pie, perhaps explaining people’s willingness to celebrate the contrived holiday.

From Slate • Mar. 14, 2018

And in Chinese, the number eight is a homophone for the word for getting rich.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2010

The word homophone is not recognized by Johnson or by Richardson: Johnson under homo- has six derivatives of Herbert Spencer's favourite word homogeneous, but beside these only four other words with this Greek affix.

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