Some homophones are sea/see, to/too/two, there/their, lead/led, read/reed, read/red.
There are also homonyms, which are different words with the same spelling: Tear in the eye, tear to rip, bow as in ribbon or bow as in bow and arrow, lie as in untruth or lie as in lie down, bass as in fish or bass as in low note. Bear as in animal or bare as in unclothed. Current as in fluid movement or as in flow of electricity. Fly as in insect or fly as in aeroplane.... It is possible to find over 150 such words.
Yes they do but they sound the same. Like Peer and Pier, Load and Lode, Bite, Byte and Bight.
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Homophone
They are called "homonyms".
They are homographs.
Homonyms are words that sound the same but have different meanings. They may also be spelled differently, such as "write" and "right," or "ate" and "eight."
Heteronyms are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and are pronounced differently, while homographs are words that are spelled the same and may or may not have different meanings but are pronounced the same.
The word "sound" is both a homograph and a homonym. It is a homograph because it is spelled the same but has multiple meanings, and it is a homonym because it sounds the same but has different meanings depending on context (e.g. "a sound" as in noise, and "sound" as in solid or stable).
One example is "lead," which can be pronounced as "led" (as in a metal) or "leed" (as in to guide). "Bow" is another example, with one pronunciation rhyming with "cow" and referring to a type of knot, and the other rhyming with "low" and referring to a weapon.
Yes, "bow" and "bow" are homonyms. They are pronounced the same but have different meanings: "bow" can refer to a type of knot or bending at the waist as a sign of respect, while "bow" can refer to a type of weapon used for shooting arrows.
heterophone
One example of homonyms with different spelling is "meet" and "meat." "Meet" refers to coming together, while "meat" is the flesh of animals used as food. Another example is "soar" (to fly high in the sky) and "sore" (painful or sensitive).
Homonym- words that share the same spelling and pronunciation, but have different meanings.
It's a homophone. Homophones are words whose pronunciation is the same, but their spelling is different. Homographs have the same spelling but different pronunciation. In this case, the homophone of the word "your" is "you're", short of "you are".
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