Explore Homophones through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Homophones meaning
plural of homophone
Using Homophones
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of homophone
- In the example corpus, homophones often appears in combinations such as: homophones of, are homophones, as homophones.
Context around Homophones
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Homophones
- In this selection, "homophones" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, four, noise, become, niger, almost and words stand out and add context to how "homophones" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ambient noise homophones or in and and many homophones words that. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "homophones" sits close to words such as abdulrasheed, abhinav and aboriginals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with homophones
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The theme is homophones of musicals. (6 words)
Like and light can be homophones. (6 words)
The theme is homophones of units of measure. (8 words)
Voice assistants can be accidentally triggered, mishearing ambient noise, homophones or, in the case of Apple’s Siri, “the sound of a zip” as their “wake words”, resulting in them recording and transmitting audio without a direct command. (38 words)
Homophones Niger main (Latin for "black") occurs in Latinate scientific nomenclature and is the root word for some homophones of nigger; sellers of niger seed (used as bird feed), sometimes use the spelling Nyjer seed. (35 words)
Though homophones and homonyms satisfy the first condition for rhyming—that is, that the stressed vowel sound is the same—they do not satisfy the second: that the preceding consonant be different. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Homophones Niger main (Latin for "black") occurs in Latinate scientific nomenclature and is the root word for some homophones of nigger; sellers of niger seed (used as bird feed), sometimes use the spelling Nyjer seed.
This simplification presents syllables as homophones which really are none, and therefore exaggerates the number of homophones almost by a factor of four.
The answer with four homophones is: carrot, karat, carat, and caret.
The theme is homophones of musicals.
The theme is homophones of units of measure.
Voice assistants can be accidentally triggered, mishearing ambient noise, homophones or, in the case of Apple’s Siri, “the sound of a zip” as their “wake words”, resulting in them recording and transmitting audio without a direct command.
Also, late in the text, the author begins using letters serving as homophones for the omitted letters (i.
By the end of the 17th century, changes in pronunciation of both ass and arse had caused them to become homophones.
Diacritics are also used to mark word stress, to indicate exceptional pronunciation of letters in certain words, and to distinguish words with same pronunciation ( homophones ).
For example, French pot ("pot") and peau ("skin") are homophones /po/, but disagree in gender: le pot vs. la peau.
Homonymic puns, another common type, arise from the exploitation of words which are both homographs and homophones.
In addition, there are many words with irregular spelling and many homophones (words that sound the same but have different meanings and often different spellings as well).
Like and light can be homophones.
Nevertheless, many homophones remain that are unresolved by spelling (for example, the word bay has at least five fundamentally different meanings).
Phonemic differentiation may vary between different dialects of a language, so that a particular minimal pair in one accent is a pair of homophones in another.
Stress had become a phonological property and could serve to distinguish forms that were otherwise homophones.
The Chinese characters for "minister" and "elephant" are homophones in Mandarin ( About this sound Listen ) and both have alternative meanings as "appearance" or "image".
The determinative was not read as a phonetic constituent, but facilitated understanding by differentiating the word from its homophones.
The user must select the desired character from homophones, which are common in Chinese.
Though homophones and homonyms satisfy the first condition for rhyming—that is, that the stressed vowel sound is the same—they do not satisfy the second: that the preceding consonant be different.
Common combinations with homophones
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- homophones of 3×
- are homophones 3×
- as homophones 2×
- homophones which 2×
- of homophones 2×
- is homophones 2×
- many homophones 2×
- homophones in 2×