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 |
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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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