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.
英汉词典释义
n.
同音异义词
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。
英英词典释义
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)