Homophone

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Homophone \Hom"o*phone\, n. [Cf. F. homophone. See
     {Homophonous}.]
     1. A letter or character which expresses a like sound with
        another. --Gliddon.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. A word having the same sound as another, but differing
        from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and
        awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.
        Homophonic

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  homophone
       n : two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way
           but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and
           bear)