homophone Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)

WordNet

Hom"o*phone noun
Etymology
Cf. F. homophone. See Homophonous.
Definitions
  1. A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. Gliddon.
  2. A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.

Webster 1913