00:04Homonyms, Homophones and Homographs
00:09Homophones are words that have the same sound, but have different meanings.
00:13For example, male and male.
00:18What other words can you think of that have the same sound but different meanings?
00:27Here are some more homophones.
00:30Berry and berry.
00:32To, to and to.
00:36Night and night.
00:38Be and be.
00:41Each of these words have the same sound or pronunciation, but a different meaning.
00:51Homographs
00:53Homographs are words that have the same spelling, but different meanings.
00:57For example, bow and bow.
01:05Can you think of any more words that are spelled the same but have different meanings?
01:13Here are some more homographs.
01:16Wind and wine.
01:19Live and live.
01:22Wound and wound.
01:25Lead and led.
01:28Each of these words are spelled the same but have a different meaning.
01:36An easy way to remember which is which is to look at the suffix in each word.
01:42Both are of Greek origin.
01:44Both are of Greek origin.
01:45Phone meaning sound.
01:47Homophones sound the same.
01:50And graph meaning to write.
01:53Homographs are written the same.
01:57What about words that are pronounced the same and spelled the same?
02:03Words like left.
02:06As in, the car turns left.
02:09And there is one apple left.
02:13And there is one apple left.
02:16Left and left are homonyms.
02:19Words that are both homophones and homographs.
02:25Can you think of any more homonyms?
02:28That is, words that sound the same and have the same spelling?
02:37Here are some examples of homonyms.
02:40Letter and letter.
02:43Write and write.
02:45Ring and ring.
02:48Bat and bat.
02:53Sometimes, the word homonym is used more broadly to refer to any word that is a homophone or a homograph.
03:03See how many homophones, homographs and homonyms you can think of.
03:09Make a list.
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