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same sound different spelling right?

can you think of a homophone with 4 spellings?
(I have 1 but feel sure there are others)

Is there a homophone with more than 4 spellings?

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
same sound different spelling right?

can you think of a homophone with 4 spellings?
(I have 1 but feel sure there are others)

Is there a homophone with more than 4 spellings?
i thought of one but dont know if i got it right 😉

right, rite, wright, write


oh wait - you said MORE than 4 - bugger ...

... ok ignore this post 🙁

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Right you are but are there others and can it be beaten?

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
Right you are but are there others and can it be beaten?
I bet there are more in French 🙂

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Does - ay
- aye
- eye
- I

Count as four or three? My dictionary lists ay and aye as seperate words with the same meaning.

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carat
carrot
caret
karat

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I did a google search for homophones, and the only one with five I found is:

so
sew
sow
sough
soh (alt. sp. for sol)

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Originally posted by forkedknight
I did a google search for homophones, and the only one with five I found is:

so
sew
sow
sough
soh (alt. sp. for sol)
Nice one! Never heard of sough (Derbyshire drainage ditch?) and had not thought of soh as alternative to sol.

Give that man a banana!

Surely 5 cannot be beaten? (or equalled!)