Homophones and Homonyms
A homophone
homo: greek meaning ‘same’
phone: meaning ‘sound’
Words that sound the same. They may have different meanings and be spelled differently.
| knight | night |
| bear | bare | sun | son |
| can | can |
I can can-can. Can you?
The word can is a type of homophone called a homonym.
homo: ‘same’
nymos: greek for ‘name’
A homonym is spelled and pronounced the same yet has a different meaning:
Here’s some more examples of homonyms:
| tire: to become weary | tire: wheel on a car |
| can: I can read | can: We ate the whole can of corn |
| run: Did you see that boy run? | run: I have a run in my sock. |
Now see if you can guess the Weekly Art of Language Challenge!
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