homophone

But while her lyrics describe situations both grave and dangerous—the record’s title is a homophone for “violence”—her words are peppered with bizarre humor and images that aren’t easy to decode.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

Correlate the homophone of the muscle to the first pair of words, and the first pair to the second pair.

From Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget by A. (Alphonse) Loisette

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

If churn is anywhere dialectal for churr, it must have come from the common mistake of substituting a familiar for an unknown word: and this is the worst way of making homophones.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems by Society for Pure English