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Sorry, what you described is NOT a homophone. A homophone is a word that is pronounced like another, but different in meaning AND in spelling, such as "too" and "two."

I think what you're talking about (spelled same but mean different things) is called a "homograph."

An easy way to remember this is that "homo" means "the same," "phone" means sounds, and "graph" means "to write." Those all make sense with what the words mean.

It can be confusing, I know!
Hope this helps. :)

2007-05-30 13:01:52 · answer #1 · answered by :) 3 · 2 0

Homophones are words that sound the same but may or may not be spelled differently. Here are a few examples from Wikipedia:
carat, caret, carrot, karet
colonel, kernel
days, daze
doe, d'oh, dough
Ed, Edd
ewe, you
eye, i, aye
fare, fair
know, no
knew, new
lone, loan
meat, meet
night, knight
principal, principle
read (past tense: /rĕd/), red
read (nonpast tense: /rēd/), reed, rede
right, write, rite
pause, paws, pores, pours
potpourri, popery
scent, cent, sent
road, rode, rowed
see, sea
seed, cede
stationary, stationery
their, there, they're
threw, through
to, too, two
told, tolled
waist, waste
wale, wail , whale
whole, hole
wood, would
your, you're (you are)

2007-05-30 19:57:52 · answer #2 · answered by ibrown 3 · 1 0

go here http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html

2007-05-30 19:58:19 · answer #3 · answered by Sptfyr 7 · 0 0

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