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Many adults in the study did not know the difference between basic homophones such as there and their.
The company name is a homophone of the Chinese word for "cute".
The program identifies homophones and confusable words and supplies alternatives.
Choose the correct homophone in each case: (1) There's no plaice / place like home. (2) I was in terrible pane / pain when I broke my arm.

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homophone | American Dictionary

homophone
noun[ C ]
us/ˈhɑm·əˌfoʊn, ˈhoʊ·mə-/
grammar
a word which is pronounced the same as another word, but which has a different meaning or spelling:
The words "so" and "sew" are homophones.

Examples of homophone

homophone
In the training trials, two homophone pairs, two synonym pairs, and two control pairs were presented in a random order.
Visual targets included interlingual homophones and one-language control items.
The number of letters in common between the homophone and the model defined visuo-orthographic proximity.
Although these words have different final vowels, they are considered bilingual homophones.
In each case, one of the three incorrect choices (homophonous error) would be appropriate if the target word were confused with its homophone.
Many languages include homophones which are distinct as written words.
He too had homophone and vocalic-pattern errors that are not characteristic of the reading of individuals with acquired neglect dyslexia.
The chosen character and the new syllable must be homophones.
Both are homophones for our local informants, but variation is found between unrounded and rounded vowel use.
The same 243 pairs were used in both the homophone judgment task and the synonym judgment task.
In the traditional system, the contrast is unlearnable and the two words will be acquired as homophones.
Thus, for example, the ability orally to distinguish and apply homophones to words requires vocabulary knowledge.
The interference for the homophones stands in contrast to the facilitation observed for cognates.
The participants made more errors on the homophone pairs than on the control pairs.
The role of phonology in reading comprehension : implications of the effects of homophones on processing sentences with referentially dependent categories.
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