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.
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Homophone
/ˈhɑməfoʊn/
Synonyms for "homophone" (34 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (10)
Noun(1 words)
phonetic twin
Related words (17)
Related word relations
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More general
3 entriesMore specific
2 entriesheterographnear homophone
Collocations
6 entriesheterograph pairhomophone pairhomophone setnear homophonepronunciation identicalsound alike
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
4 entriesTranslations
53 translations across 43 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- homofoon noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Arabic
1 entries- لَفْظَة مُتَجَانِسَة noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Armenian
1 entries- նույնահնչյուն բառ noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Bulgarian
1 entries- омофо́н noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Catalan
1 entries- homòfon noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 同音字 noun (words with the same pronunciation)
- 同音詞 /同音词 noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Czech
2 entries- homofon noun (words with the same pronunciation)
- homofonum noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Danish
1 entries- homofon noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Dutch
1 entries- homofoon noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Esperanto
1 entries- homofono noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Estonian
1 entries- homofoon noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Finnish
1 entries- homofoni noun (words with the same pronunciation)
French
1 entries- homophone noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Friulian
1 entries- omofon noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Georgian
1 entries- ომოფონი noun (words with the same pronunciation)
German
1 entries- Homophon noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Greek
1 entries- ομόφωνος noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Hindi
1 entries- समध्वनि noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Hungarian
1 entries- homofon (not infrequently spelled homofón) noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Icelandic
1 entries- samhljóma orð noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Ido
1 entries- homofono noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Indonesian
1 entries- homofon noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Irish
2 entries- homafón noun (words with the same pronunciation)
- téarma comhfhuaimneach noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Italian
1 entries- omofono noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Japanese
1 entries- 同音語 noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Kazakh
1 entries- омофон noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Khmer
2 entries- កល្បសព្ទ noun (words with the same pronunciation)
- សូរដូច noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Korean
1 entries- 동음이의어 noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Lithuanian
1 entries- homofonas noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- hevdeng noun (words with the same pronunciation)
- homofon noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- homofon noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- homofon noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Portuguese
1 entries- homófono noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Romanian
1 entries- omofon noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Russian
1 entries- омофо́н noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- homofon noun (words with the same pronunciation)
- istozvučnica noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Slovene
2 entries- enakoglasnica noun (words with the same pronunciation)
- homofon noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Spanish
2 entries- homófona noun (words with the same pronunciation)
- homófono noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Swedish
1 entries- homofon noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Thai
1 entries- คำพ้องเสียง noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Turkish
2 entries- sesteş noun (words with the same pronunciation)
- sesteş kelime noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Vietnamese
1 entries- từ đồng âm noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Welsh
2 entries- cyfunsain noun (words with the same pronunciation)
- homoffon noun (words with the same pronunciation)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
There are not few untranslatable jokes based on some homophone.
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