A HOMOGRAPH
A homograph is a word that has
the same spelling as another word but has a different sound and a different
meaning:
lead
(to go in front of)/lead
(a metal)
wind
(to follow a course that is not straight)/wind
(a gust of air)
bass
(low, deep sound)/bass
(a type of fish)
A
HOMOPHONE
A homophone
is a word that has the same sound as another word but is spelled differently
and has a different meaning:
to/two/too
there/their/they're
pray/prey
The
ending –graph
means drawn or written, so a homograph has the same spelling. The –phone ending means
sound or voice, so a homophone has the same pronunciation. But here's where it
gets tricky.
(https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/homonym-homophone-homograph/)
HOMONYM
The
–onym root
means “name.” You also hear it in anonymous,
which literally means “without a name,” and of course, in the words synonym and antonym. Homonyms are
words that have the same name; in other words, they sound the same and they’re
spelled the same. For example, pen
meaning the writing instrument, and pen
meaning an enclosure for an animal, are homonyms. They have the same
pronunciation, “pen,” and they’re both spelled P-E-N. To put it another way,
homonyms are both
homophones and homographs!
You can even illustrate this with a cute little Venn diagram of two overlapping
circles. One circle contains homophones; the other circle contains homographs;
and the football in the middle contains homonyms.
So
homophones sound the same; homographs are spelled the same; and homonyms do
both. That’s all you need to know.
At
this point, if you already knew the difference between the three words, you
might be saying, “Now hold on just one minute! Homographs are words that are
spelled the same, and don’t
sound the same! Homophones are words that sound the same, but aren’t spelled the same!”
This
is where my fingers and thumbs analogy comes in. Sure, when somebody says, “Ow!
I cut my finger!” you probably figure they cut their pointer, tall man, ring
finger, or pinky. That’s because if they’d cut their thumb, they’d probably
have been more specific and said, “Ow! I cut my thumb!” Even so, you agree that
a thumb is
a finger—a special finger, but still a finger. In the same way, it makes more
sense to say that pen
and pen are special homophones
than to say they’re not
homophones. And by the same reasoning, it’s simpler to think of pen and pen as special homographs
than say they’re not
homographs.
Of
course, if you really want to, you can write the definitions of homophone, homonym,
and homograph
so that there’s no overlap, but I suspect that definitions like that are part
of the reason for people’s confusion.
(http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/homophones-homographs-and-homonyms)
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