homophone
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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 was also a homophone for “turn,” which fed into the group’s idea of “turning around and moving forward to face the challenges head-on,” according to Tern’s website.
From The Verge ● Feb. 11, 2021
On the other hand, the substantive beam is an example of such a false homophone as I include.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones by Robert Seymour Bridges
For more information about homophones, see Words and Language.
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
Kay and Kaye, thirty and thirty-one, are not related or married: their last names happen to be homophones.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019
The most important phonograms are the uniliteral or alphabetic signs, twenty-four in number in the Old Kingdom and without any homophones: later these were increased by homophones to thirty.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing homophone
Language and Grammar - Introductory
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Common Senses: Phon ("Sound")
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Commonly Confused Words, List 1
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