meaning of homophones

1. A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another.
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.
3.
two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both e. g. bare and bear


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