homophones
n. 同音异义词( homophone的名词复数 )
In linguistics, homophones are words with different meanings which are pronounced in the same way but are spelled differently. For example, 'write' and 'right' are homophones.
Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both.
发音相同拼写和意思不同的两个单词是同音异义词.
One reason is to disambiguate homophones.
原因之一是为了区别同音词.