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Word that has identical pronunciation as another word, but differs in meaning

the term in linguistics

A homophone ('/h//ɒ//m//ə//f//oʊ//n//, /'/h//oʊ//m//ə// /) is a word that is pronounced the same (to a varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning. The two words may be spelled the same, for example rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or spelled differently, as in rain, reign, and rein. The term homophone sometimes applies to units longer or shorter than words, for example a phrase, letter, or groups of letters which are pronounced the same as a counterpart. Any unit with this property is said to be homophonous (/h//ə/'/m//ɒ//f//ən//ə//s/). Homophones that are spelled the same are deemed both homographs and homonyms, e. g. the word read, as in "He is well read" (he is very learned) vs. the sentence "I read that book" (I have finished reading that book). Homophones that are spelled differently are also called heterographs, e. g. to, too, and two.

"Homophone" derives from Greek homo (ὁμο‑), "same", and phōnḗ (φωνή), "voice, utterance".

Although Spanish has far fewer homophones than English, they are far from being non existent. Some are homonyms, such as basta, which can either mean 'enough' or 'coarse', and some exist because of homophonous letters. For example, the letters b and v are pronounced exactly alike, so the words basta (coarse) and vasta (vast) are pronounced identically. Other homonyms are spelled the same, but mean different things in different genders. For example, the masculine noun el capital means 'capital' as in 'money', but the feminine noun la capital means 'capital city'.

It is estimated that there are approximately 4,500 to 4,800 possible syllables in Vietnamese, depending on the dialect. The exact number is difficult to calculate because there are significant differences in pronunciation among the dialects. For example, the graphemes and digraphs "d", "gi", and "r" are all pronounced /z/ in the Hanoi dialect, so the words dao (knife), giao (delivery), and rao (advertise) are all pronounced /zaw˧/. In Saigon dialect, however, the graphemes and digraphs "d", "gi", and "v" are all pronounced /j/, so the words dao (knife), giao (delivery), and vao (enter) are all pronounced /jaw˧/. Pairs of words that are homophones in one dialect may not be homophones in the other. For example, the words sắc (sharp) and xắc (dice) are both pronounced /săk˧˥/ in Hanoi dialect, but pronounced /ʂăk˧˥/ and /săk˧˥/ in Saigon dialect respectively.

Pseudo homophones are pseudowords that are phonetically identical to a word. For example, groan/grone and crane/crain are pseudo homophone pairs, whereas plane/plain is a homophone pair since both letter strings are recognised words. Both types of pairs are used in lexical decision tasks to investigate word recognition.

Homophones, specifically heterographs, where one spelling is of a threatening nature and one is not (e. g. slay/sleigh, war/wore) have been used in studies of anxiety as a test of cognitive models that those with high anxiety tend to interpret ambiguous information in a threatening manner.