homophonous

1. 1.

   characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way

   “`horse' and `hoarse' are homophonous words”

   linguistics

Questions about homophonous

What does homophonous mean?

homophonous means "characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way".

How many syllables are in homophonous?

homophonous has 4 syllables and divides as ho-mo-pho-nous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is homophonous a common word?

homophonous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.