HOMOPHONOUS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way

Example:

'horse' and 'hoarse' are homophonous words

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

Pertainym:

homophone (two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear))

Derivation:

homophony (the same pronunciation for words of different origins)