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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 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.