What are similar sounding words?
Words that having similar sounds are called homonyms. Within the category of homonyms are two commonly confused concepts: homographs and homophones. Homographs are words that are may have the same spelling, but have different meanings and that may have different pronunciations.
What is homophones give 10 examples?
Examples of Homophones
| air, heir | aisle, isle |
|---|---|
| some sum | son, sun |
| stair, stare | stationary, stationery |
| steal, steel | suite, sweet |
| tail, tale | their, there |
What H means?
(H) is an emoticon which means means “Cool Dude” or “Heart.” This emoticon may be typed as (H), but is more commonly typed as (h).
What are homophones and give examples?
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (to varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning. A homophone may also differ in spelling. The two words may be spelled the same, as in rose (flower) and rose (past tense of rise), or differently, as in rain, reign, and rein.
What are palindromes examples?
The most familiar palindromes in English are character-unit palindromes. The characters read the same backward as forward. Some examples of palindromic words are redivider, deified, civic, radar, level, rotor, kayak, reviver, racecar, madam, and refer.
What is the best palindrome?
What are the Best & Most Famous Palindromes
- Madam In Eden, I’m Adam (5 words, 17 letters)
- Mr.
- A Santa Lived As a Devil At NASA (8 words, 25 letters)
- Dammit, I’m Mad!
- Was It A Rat I Saw? (6 words, 13 letters)
- Do Geese See God? (4 words, 13 letters)
- Never Odd Or Even (4 words, 14 letters)
- Doc, Note: I Dissent. A Fast Never Prevents A Fatness.
What is a word you can read both ways?
A word, phrase or sentence that is the same both backwards and forwards is called a palindrome. The name palindrome comes from the Greek words ‘again’ (palin) and ‘to run’ (drom).
Is Aibohphobia a real word?
Aibohphobia is the (unofficial) fear of palindromes, which are words that read the same front and back and, you guessed it, the word itself is a palindrome.
What 5 letter word is the same upside down and backwards?
Riddle: What 5 letter word typed in all capital letters can be read the same upside down? Answer: SWIMS.
What 4 letter word is the same upside down?
What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right? Answer: NOON.
Which five letter word becomes shorter when two more letters are added to it?
The answer is a pencil lead.
Which vehicle is spelled the same forwards and backwards?
Racecar
What belongs to you but is used by others?
What is the answer to the riddle? Explanation: The answer to this belongs to You But everyone else uses it Riddle is Your Name. Now when you look at it people your name belongs to you but everyone else uses your name.