What is a homophone?

Answer 1

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (sounds the same) as another word but means something else and is spelled differently, e.g.

1. bare, bear
2. bread, bred
3. cue, queue
4. die, dye
5. know, no
6. mind, mined
7. oar, or
8. our, hour
9. pair, pare, pear
10. pause, paws
11. root, route
12. sale, sail
13. sew, so
14. sighs, size
15. stare, stair
16. steel, steal
17. tail, tale
18. thyme, time
19. way, whey, weigh
20. yolk, yoke
21. your, you're, yore

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Answer 2

A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning and often a different spelling. Examples include "their," "there," and "they're."