homophonics
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Mr. Waite based his method upon a study of homophonics, i. e., the words that have a like sound and a like meaning in different languages."
- "The principle of parsimony, I suggest, creates a residual category of homophonics, or chance convergences of two or more interpretations to a single phonetic string."
- "Perfectly suited to monosyllabic languages like Sumerian, this principle allows a picture of something to express a syllable in spoken language, taking advantage of homophonics."
- "[...] in truth, Gluck was never interested in counterpoint he always thought in terms of homophonics (chordal relationships)."