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say it: HOH-moh-fohn
homophone is a noun meaning "two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)". It is pronounced /ˈhoʊmoʊˌfoʊn/ — HOH-moh-fohn. It carries one recorded sense.
two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for homophone come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.