Word Relationships
Homonym or Homophone?
Homonym
Examples Can as in "Can I help you?" and can as
in "Here's a can of soup."
Introduction In linguistics, a homonym is one of a group of
(from Wikipedia) words that share the same spelling and the
same pronunciation but have different
meanings, usually as a result of the two
words having different origins.
Spelling Homonyms have the same spelling.
Meaning Different
Pronunciation Same
Homophone
Fourth and forth
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. The words may be spelled the same, such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or to, two and too.
Homophones may have the same or different spelling.
Different
Same
Below are a variety of online activities to practice common homophones & homonyms.
Synonym or Antonym?
Synonyms - words which have the same or similar meaning
Below are several online activities to practice common synonyms:
Antonyms - words which mean the opposite or each other
Below are several online activities to practice common antonyms: