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Homophone puzzler?
Words which have different meanings and, possibly, different spellings, but which are pronounced alike are called homophones. The following are examples of homophones:
(a) to, too, and two
(b) our and hour
(c) earn and urn
(d) right, write, and rite
etc.
There is a legitimate English word which, if you remove its first letter, leaves another legitimate English word which is a homophone of the original. Furthermore, if you put back the first letter and remove the second letter from the original word, you obtain yet a third homophone of the other two words. All three words are common English words which you might very well use daily.
Can you figure out what the three words are?
3 Answers
- 1 decade ago
You already got a correct answer. I'm here to say that your sample homophone (d) missed out on another good puzzler.
In addition to right, write and rite, there is wright, making this the only quadruple homophone in the English language.
