Pyre vs Lyre - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between pyre and lyre

is that pyre is a funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned while lyre is a stringed musical instrument.

(en noun)

A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.

:* For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare. - Homer Iliad, p. 31

Any heap or pile of combustibles.

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(wikipedia lyre)

(en noun)

A stringed musical instrument.

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