Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have a different meaning.
The word homophone comes from the Greek words: homo, meaning ‘same’ and phone, meaning ‘sound’, i.e., words that sound the same.
Examples of homophones:
| aloud | allowed |
| bored | board |
| break | brake |
| buy | by |
| great | grate |
| meat | meet |
| pale | pail |
| pain | pane |
| principle | principal |
| red | read |
| rode | road |
| sail | sale |
| sea | see |
| waist | waste |
| way | weigh |
| Week | Weak |
Cite this article as: William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team), "Homophones: Meaning & Examples," in SchoolWorkHelper, 2019, https://schoolworkhelper.net/homophones-meaning-examples/.
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