homophonic
adjective
homophonic is an adjective meaning “Having the same sound; being homophones” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-M-O-P-H-O-N-I-C, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does homophonic mean?
adjective
- 1
Having the same sound; being homophones.
- 2
Having a single, accompanied, melodic line.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce homophonic?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-homophonic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is homophonic?
Homophonic appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Homophonic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense linguistics: having the same sound:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | homophonique |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does homophonic come from?
From homophone + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).