# pain, pane, Payne

> English homophone group · 3 words that sound the same · /peɪn/

These English words share one pronunciation but differ in spelling and meaning.

## The words

### pain
*/peɪn/*
An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.

### pane
*/peɪn/*
An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc.

### Payne
*/peɪn/*
An English surname, variant of Paine.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA); groups derived from IPA pronunciation. Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/homophones/pain