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Homophonic

Definition: Homophonic

Homophonic

Adjective

1. Having a single melodic line with accompaniment.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Crosswords: Homophonic

English words defined with "homophonic": homophony. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Homophonic

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Books

  • Homophonic Forms Of Musical Compositions, An Exhaustive Treatise On The Structure.. (reference)

  • The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Treatise on the Structure & Development of Musical Forms (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Homophonic

"Homophonic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Homophonic" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%1980,337

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Homophonic

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "homophonic": non-homophonic, quasi-homophonic.

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Modern Translation: Homophonic

Language Translations for "homophonic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

co-heeanagh (harmonic, harmonious). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

omophonichay.(various references)

   

Turkish

  

eşsesli (homonym, homonymic, homonymous), aynı perdeden (unisonous), ahenkli (cadenced, canorous, coherent, concordant, congruent, congruous, consonant, euphonic, euphonious, harmonic, harmonious, in accord, in order, melodic, melodious, symphonious, tuneful). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Homophonic

Misspellings

"Homophonic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: homocholic, homophoic, homophomic, homophopic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Homophonic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-h-h-i-m-n-o-o-o-p"

-4 letters: chopin, honcho, phonic, poncho.

-5 letters: chimp, chino, chomp, compo, hooch, mooch, nomoi, ohmic, oomph, phono, pinch, pooch.

 Words containing the letters "c-h-h-i-m-n-o-o-o-p"
 

+5 letters: anthropomorphic, morphophonemics.

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