homophone

The name 99 Ranch Market comes from the lucky number 99, which is a homophone for the word “long-lasting” in Chinese.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

A teacher hoisted a huge sunflower made from dozens of balloons -- the plant's name in Mandarin is a homophone for a Chinese idiom about success.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

But the WHO decided a homophone for “new” would be too confusing.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021

It is a homophone for “heart” and “new.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

It is plain that the Greek is untranslatable into English because of the homophone.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Bridges, Robert Seymour

Students in the small, remote community of Estancia, N.M., were enthusiastically engaged in a vocabulary lesson, enunciating words with a “bossy r,” as well as homophones and homonyms, and spelling them on white boards.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2022

Here are some common homophones and their meanings:

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

And I argue that even though he’s world-famous and globally acclaimed, he’s really underrated for the kind of sophisticated nuanced deployment of homophones, metonymy, simile, metaphor, braggadocio, allusion.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2019

Are you good at phrases that incorporate complicated Mandarin homophones?

From The Guardian ● May 15, 2019

Otto Jespersen12 seems to think that the inconvenience of homophones is so great that a language will naturally evolve some phonetic habit to guard itself against them, although it would otherwise neglect such distinction.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Bridges, Robert Seymour