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What is a homophone?

Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently.

For example: DEER and DEAR are homophones.  Notice they SOUND the same, however; they are SPELLED differently and have different meanings.   For definitions of the words click on each individual word.

Now that we know what homophones are, please go to the next page to read the TEXT.

HOMEPAGE