homoiophone
/hɒˈmɔɪəfəʊn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This was through the existence of homophones and homoiophones in a language, of words with the same or similar sounds, but with diverse significations."
- "This was through the existence of homophones and homoiophones, that is, of words with different meanings but the same or nearly the same sound."
- "Have you any idea as to what ought to be done with what I believe you pepel call homophones or homoiophones. I hope that is not the right name for them. But is it not foolish to have an educated nation that refuses to readjust such inconveniences?"
- "By way of bringing this intricate and tedious dissertation to an end, allow me to recite a short specimen of the thing itself — a Siamese “jaw-breaker” which, for ingenious bewilderment by means of homoiophones, I am sure does not fall behind our “Theophilus Thistle the Thistle-sifter,” while in coloratura of intonation it certainly leaves that far behind."
- "Another explanation relates to the actual use of homophony-generating rules; perhaps pseudohomophones are not homophones but rather ‘homoiophones’, that is, phonologically similar but not exactly equal to their word mates."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /hɒˈmɔɪəfəʊn/