Homophone
//ˈhɑməfoʊn//
"Homophone" in a Sentence (2 examples)
English mother-tongue speakers are embarrassed to correctly pronounce the name of the German philosopher Kant, which is a homophone for a vulgar expression referring to the female genitals.
There are not few untranslatable jokes based on some homophone.
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