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Pter Posted 18 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Homophones

Just out of curiosity, which English word has the most number of homophones (different words but same pronunciation)?

Examples of homophones:

1. boy, buoy ---> 2
2. nose, knows, noes ---> 3
3. rose, roes, rows --->3
4. ??, ??, ??, ?? ---> 4 Anybody knows if something like this exists?
  

Top answer

These are homophones, at least in BrE. peak, peek, peke, pique pause, paws, pores, pours right, rite, wright, write awe, oar, or, ore yaw, yore, your, you're

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  • peak, peek, peke, pique pause, paws, pores, pours right, rite, wright, write awe, oar, or, ore yaw, yore, your, you're
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These are homophones, at least in BrE.

peak, peek, peke, pique
pause, paws, pores, pours
right, rite, wright, write
awe, oar, or, ore
yaw, yore, your, you're
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Pause and pores sound alike in BrE? Awe sounds like ore/or/oar?

Boy and buoy do not sound alike as I know them. Boy rhymes with toy and buoy is boo-ee.

I like the right, rite, wright, write collection. I don't know that I could come up with more than four.

I can only come up with two others that have three: pour/pore/poor and there/they're/their. Oh, wait: hi/high
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Grammar GeekBoy and buoy do not sound alike as I know them.
I'm afraid he's right... I looked it up and my dictionary says it's "boy" in BrE!
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I've always said buoy the same as boy. That's how I learned it. Lately I've heard that other boo-ee pronunciation a lot, and I concluded it was just a common mispronunciation (like mis CHEE vee us). Neverthess, m-w.com gives it as the first choice.

Mary/marry/merry sound the same to me. In this I'm sure I am in the vast majority of Americans.

CJ
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ZeroxThese are homophones, at least in BrE.

peak, peek, peke, pique
pause, paws, pores, pours
right, rite, wright, write
awe, oar, or, ore
yaw, yore, your, you're
Wow! You found 5 quadruplets!

I just came across interesting phrases like this. This is funny.
'stuffy nose' vs. 'stuff he knows'
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'stuffy nose' vs. 'stuff he knows'
There's a whole list of these somewhere on the web, but I don't recall where. Hopefully, someone else knows of that site and can provide it to both of us.

CJ
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Grammar GeekPause and pores sound alike in BrE? Awe sounds like ore/or/oar?

That's what you get when speaking with a non-rhotic accent
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0right,wright,write 'rite'0-
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01cite10CalifJim12cite11i10Mary/marry/merry12i10 sound the same to me. 12blockquote
10I find this really strange.. I'm English, and I pronounce them all differently. Mary is "mare-y", marry is "m-ah-ry and merry is "m-eh-ry".02br
00Funny!0-
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0Tore and tour sound the same to me. Also, poor, pore, pour. 02br
00Mary, merry are the same, but marry is different. 0-
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