Fact · Dictation
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning or in spelling.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning or in spelling”
Homophone, Wikipedia contributors, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, n.d., Lead paragraph.
Open the original- What it measures
- The encyclopedia article gives this as the basic definition and gives rain, reign and rein as examples of homophones spelled differently, and rose (the flower and the past tense of rise) as one spelled identically.
- What it does not show
- A definition rather than a measured finding. The term is also used for units longer or shorter than a word, which this fact does not cover.