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.
英漢詞典釋義
n.
同音異義詞
Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both.發音相同拼寫和意思不同的兩個單詞是同音異義詞。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)