#p53 Please correct me

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lyric carbon
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homonymes works in french for homophone regardless if they are homographe or not

homonyme ​​​: Se dit des mots de prononciation identique (➙ homophone) et de sens différents, qu'ils soient de même orthographe (➙ homographe) ou non (ex. ceint, sain, sein, seing).

elfin palm
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So you're saying that homonyme is a synonym of homophone?

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But my dictionary says homonyme is not necessarily homophone

lyric carbon
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A homophone only considers phonetics: the words must sound the same but be written differently.
A homonym considers meaning: the words must sound the same and may be written the same or differently, but they must have different meanings.

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In french, people will use mostly "synonymes" and "homonymes", we rarely use "homophone" and "homograph"

elfin palm
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And both homophones and homonyms do not consider spelling then

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Or do homophones consider spelling in the sense that spelling must be different

lyric carbon
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Homophones share the same pronunciation but not necessarily the same spelling.
what matters is the pronunciation
Homonyms can share the same pronunciation and/or the same spelling, but have different meanings
what matters is the meanings

to be honnest, most of people juste use "homonyms" because it cover both homophones and homographs

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Est (East /ɛst/ and 'Être' /ɛ/) is a homonym and a homograph but not a homophone, one pronunciation includes the 's' while the other does not
Fils (Son /fis/ or string /fil/) is an other example

elfin palm
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But then you can have homophones not covered by homonym?

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Like soûl and saoul

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I understand that homographs are not used, it isn't used much in English either

lyric carbon
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to be a homophone but not a homonym, you need:
To be prononced the same, to have the same meaning
But, not necessarily to the same spelling

So it's basicly the same word but spelled differently or not (like clé and clef)
I don't think it would be an homophone since it's the same word

So i think that all homophones are homonym, but all homonym aren't homophones

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In french, we could say that we are spliting hairs
"couper les cheveux en quatre" or "chercher la petite bête" (literally, "to search for the little bug")

elfin palm
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Exactly