Homophones: Terminology
Some of these words may have other meanings; the meanings listed below are the ones relevant to the activity
Allophone: A speech sound which is a variant of a phoneme, like the "t" sound in tree, butter, cat that are all pronounced slightly differently yet are variants of the same English phoneme "t".
Homo- (prefix): A form borrowed from Greek, meaning "same".
Homograph: A word spelled the same as another yet carries a different meaning. Homographs can have identical or different pronunciations [e.g., hale (adjective, robust)/hale (verb, haul) and lead (the metal)/lead (verb), respectively.]
Homonym: A word spelled and pronounced the same as another yet carries a different meaning [e.g., fair (just) and fair (pleasing in appearance)].
Homophone: A word pronounced the same as another yet carries a different meaning. Homophones can be spelled differently or have identical spelling [e.g., ant/aunt and bear (noun)/bear (verb), respectively.]
Phone: A sound of speech. The form often appears as a suffix or a prefix (e.g., phoneme, allophone)
Phoneme: A distinct unit of sound used in a language, for example the sound "t" in English. It is more accurate to think of a phoneme as a class of sounds, as a phoneme may have a number of variants (see Allophone).
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