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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
homophonous is an adjective meaning "characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way". It carries one recorded sense.
characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way
“`horse' and `hoarse' are homophonous words”
linguistics
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for homophonous come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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