homophone

As nouns the difference between pun and homophone

is that pun is a joke or type of wordplay in which similar senses or sounds of two words or phrases, or different senses of the same word, are deliberately confused while homophone is a word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin, for example: carat, caret, carrot, and karat.

As a verb pun

is to beat; strike with force; ram; pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder.

As nouns the difference between homophone and polysemy

is that homophone is a word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or'' meaning ''or origin, for example: carat, caret, carrot, and karathttp://wwwmerriam-webstercom/dictionary/homophonehttp://wwwaskoxfordcom/concise_oed/homophone?view=uk while polysemy is (semantics) the ability of words, signs and symbols to have multiple meanings.

As nouns the difference between homophone and homographs

is that homophone is a word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin, for example: carat, caret, carrot, and karat while homographs is plural of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between homophone and heterophone

is that homophone is a word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or'' meaning ''or origin, for example: carat, caret, carrot, and karathttp://wwwmerriam-webstercom/dictionary/homophonehttp://wwwaskoxfordcom/concise_oed/homophone?view=uk while heterophone is a word whose spelling and sound both differ from another’s.

As nouns the difference between polyseme and homophone

is that polyseme is (linguistics) a word or phrase that has multiple meanings while homophone is a word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or'' meaning ''or origin, for example: carat, caret, carrot, and karathttp://wwwmerriam-webstercom/dictionary/homophonehttp://wwwaskoxfordcom/concise_oed/homophone?view=uk.

As an adjective polyseme

is (linguistics) having multiple meanings.

As nouns the difference between heteronym and homophone

is that heteronym is (linguistics) a word having the same spelling as another, but a different pronunciation and meaning while homophone is a word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or'' meaning ''or origin, for example: carat, caret, carrot, and karathttp://wwwmerriam-webstercom/dictionary/homophonehttp://wwwaskoxfordcom/concise_oed/homophone?view=uk.

As nouns the difference between homophone and homonyms

is that homophone is a word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin, for example: carat, caret, carrot, and karat while homonyms is plural of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between homonymy and homophone

is that homonymy is the property of being a homonym while homophone is a word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin, for example: carat, caret, carrot, and karat.

As nouns the difference between homophone and homeophone

is that homophone is a word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or'' meaning ''or origin, for example: carat, caret, carrot, and karathttp://wwwmerriam-webstercom/dictionary/homophonehttp://wwwaskoxfordcom/concise_oed/homophone?view=uk while homeophone is .

As nouns the difference between homophone and homophene

is that homophone is a word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin, for example: carat, caret, carrot, and karat while homophene is any of a set of words that sound differently, but look identical on a person's lips, so that they cannot be distinguished by lipreading.