Pernah nggak kamu kesulitan membedakan pronunciation dari “good” dan “goat”? Kesalahan kecil macam itu tentunya nggak asing pas dulu kamu baru belajar bahasa Inggris, kan? Faktanya, kesalahan pengucapan semacam itu sebenarnya nggak papa lho. Karena dalam bahasa Inggris, ada yang namanya homophone. Sebenarnya, apa sih homophone itu? Kampung Inggris LC akan menjelaskan pengertian homophone dan contohnya untukmu.
Apa Itu Homophone?
Dalam bahasa Inggris, homophone diartikan sebagai sekelompok kata yang memiliki pronunciation hampir mirip (bahkan sama persis), tapi artinya berbeda. Di dalam materi pronunciation, homophone memiliki tempat yang spesial, karena bisa membuat pembelajar bahasa Inggris makin luwes lidahnya.
Example:
I rose from sleeping, and took a beautiful rose from the vas beside me
Akan tetapi bagi yang belum terbiasa, pasti akan kesulitan saat berhadapan dengan homophone. Jadi buat kamu-kamu yang masih belajar, silakan terus perluas wawasan vocabulary dan lancarkan pronunciationnya.
Contoh Homophone dalam Kehidupan Sehari-Hari
Dalam kamus bahasa Inggris, ada cukup banyak homophone yang tersedia. Ada satu kata yang memiliki tiga, empat, bahkan lima homophone sekaligus. Tapi sebagian besar kata hanya memiliki satu homophone saja.
Supaya kamu lebih mudah memahami homophone dan bisa mempraktikkan pronunciationnya, coba baca contoh-contoh homophone di bawah ini. Kamu bisa mempraktikkan cara bacanya bersama teman atau saudaramu di rumah.
| Ad, Add | Aerie, Airy | Ail, Ale | Air, Heir |
| Aisle, Isle | All, Awl | Allowed, Aloud | Altar, Alter |
| Arc, Ark | Ascent, Assent | Ate, Eight | Attendance, Attendants |
| Aural, Oral | Axes, Axis | Aye, Eye | Bail, Bale |
| Baited, Bated | Bald, Bawled | Ball, Bawl | Band, Banned |
| Bard, Barred | Bare, Bear | Baron, Barren | Base, Bass |
| Based, Baste | Be, Bee | Beach, Beech | Beat, Beet |
| Beau, Bow | Beer, Bier | Bell, Belle | Berry, Bury |
| Berth, Birth | Billed, Build | Blew, Blue | Bloc, Block |
| Boar, Bore | Board, Bored | Boarder, Border | Bold, Bowled |
| Bolder, Boulder | Bootie, Booty | Born, Borne | Burro, Burrow |
| Bough, Bow | Braid, Brayed | Brake, Break | Bread, Bred |
| Brewed, Brood | Brews, Bruise | Bridal, Bridle | Broach, Brooch |
| Brows, Browse | But, Butt | Buy, Bye | Caddie, Caddy |
| Callous, Callus | Canon, Cannon | Canter, Cantor | Canvas, Canvass |
| Capital, Capitol | Carat, Carrot | Carol, Carrel | Cast, Caste |
| Cede, Seed | Ceiling, Sealing | Cell, Sell | Cellar, Seller |
| Censor, Sensor | Cent, Scent | Cereal, Serial | Cession, Session |
| Chance, Chants | Chased, Chaste | Cheap, Cheep | Chews, Choose |
| Chic, Sheik | Chili, Chilly | Choir, Quire | Choral, Coral |
| Chord, Cored | Chute, Shoot | Cite, Sight | Clause, Claws |
| Close, Clothes | Coarse, Course | Colonel, Kernel | Complement, Compliment |
| Council, Counsel | Coward, Cowered | Creak, Creek | Crewel, Cruel |
| Crews, Cruise | Cue, Queue | Currant, Current | Cygnet, Signet |
| Cymbal, Symbol | Dam, Damn | Days, Daze | Dear, Deer |
| Dense, Dents | Desert, Dessert | Dew, Due | Die, Dye |
| Disburse, Disperse | Discreet, Discrete | Doe, Dough | Does, Doze |
| Done, Dun | Dual, Duel | Dyeing, Dying | Earn, Urn |
| Eave, Eve | Eek, Eke | Eight, Ate | Ewe, You |
| Ewes, Yews | Eye, Aye | Eyelet, Islet | Faint, Feint |
| Fair, Fare | Faun, Fawn | Faze, Phase | Feat, Feet |
| Fined, Find | Fir, Fur | Fisher, Fissure | Flair, Flare |
| Flea, Flee | Flew, Flue | Floe, Flow | Flour, Flower |
| Foaled, Fold | For, Four | Foreword, Forward | Forth, Fourth |
| Foul, Fowl | Franc, Frank | Frays, Phrase | Freeze, Frieze |
| Friar, Fryer | Gaff, Gaffe | Gait, Gate | Gamble, Gambol |
| Genes, Jeans | Gibe, Jibe | Gild, Guild | Gilt, Guilt |
| Knew, New | Gofer, Gopher | Gorilla, Guerrilla | Gourd, Gored |
| Grate, Great | Grill, Grille | Grisly, Grizzly | Groan, Grown |
| Guessed, Guest | Guise, Guys | Hail, Hale | Hair, Hare |
| Hall, Haul | Hangar, Hanger | Hart, Heart | Hay, Hey |
| Heal, Heel | Hear, Here | Heard, Herd | Heir, Air |
| Heroin, Heroine | Hew, Hue | Hi, High | Him, Hymn |
| Ho, Hoe | Hoard, Horde | Hoarse, Horse | Hoes, Hose |
| Hole, Whole | Holy, Wholly | Hostel, Hostile | Hour, Our |
| Idle, Idol | In, Inn | Incidence, Incidents | Intense, Intents |
| Isle, Aisle | Islet, Eyelet | Jam, Jamb | Jeans, Genes |
| Jibe, Gibe | Kernel, Colonel | Knave, Nave | Knead, Need |
| Knew, New | Knight, Night | Knit, Nit | Knot, Not |
| Know, No | Knows, Nose | Lacks, Lax | Lain, Lane |
| Lama, Llama | Laps, Lapse | Lay, Lei | Leach, Leech |
| Lead, Led | Leak, Leek | Lean, Lien | Leased, Least |
| Lessen, Lesson | Levee, Levy | Lie, Lye | Links, Lynx |
| Lo, Low | Load, Lode | Loan, Lone | Locks, Lox |
| Loot, Lute | Made, Maid | Mail, Male | Main, Mane |
| Maize, Maze | Mall, Maul | Manner, Manor | Mantel, Mantle |
| Marshal, Martial | Mask, Masque | Massed, Mast | Meat, Meet |
| Medal, Meddle | Metal, Mettle | Mewl, Mule | Mews, Muse |
| Might, Mite | Mince, Mints | Mind, Mined | Miner, Minor |
| Missal, Missile | Missed, Mist | Moan, Mown | Moose, Mousse |
| Morning, Mourning | Muscle, Mussel | Mustard, Mustered | Naval, Navel |
| Nave, Knave | Nay, Neigh | Need, Knead | New, Gnu |
| Nicks, Nix | Night, Knight | Nit, Knit | No, Know |
| None, Nun | Nose, Knows | Not, Knot | Oar, Ore |
| Ode, Owed | Oh, Owe | One, Won | Oral, Aural |
| Our, Hour | Paced, Paste | Packed, Pact | Pail, Pale |
| Pain, Pane | Pair, Pear | Palette, Pallet | Passed, Past |
| Patience, Patients | Pause, Paws | Peace, Piece | Peak, Peek |
| Peal, Peel | Pearl, Purl | Pedal, Peddle | Peer, Pier |
| Phase, Faze | Phrase, Frays | Plain, Plane | Plait, Plate |
| Pleas, Please | Plum, Plumb | Pole, Poll | Pore, Pour |
| Praise, Prays | Presence, Presents | Pride, Pried | Pries, Prize |
| Primer, Primmer | Prince, Prints | Principal, Principle | Profit, Prophet |
| Quarts, Quartz | Queue, Cue | Quire, Choir | Rabbet, Rabbit |
| Rain, Reign | Raise, Rays | Rap, Wrap | Rapt, Wrapped |
| Real, Reel | Red, Read | Read, Reed | Reek, Wreak |
| Residence, Residents | Rest, Wrest | Retch, Wretch | Review, Revue |
| Right, Write | Ring, Wring | Road, Rowed | Roe, Row |
| Role, Roll | Roomer, Rumour | Root, Route | Rose, Rows |
| Rote, Wrote | Rouse, Rows | Rude, Rued | Rung, Wrung |
| Rye, Wry | Sac, Sack | Sail, Sale | Sane, Seine |
| Saver, Savour | Scene, Seen | Scent, Sent | Scull, Skull |
| Sea, See | Sealing, Ceiling | Seam, Seem | Seas, Seize |
| Seed, Cede | Sell, Cell | Seller, Cellar | Sensor, Censor |
| Serf, Surf | Serge, Surge | Serial, Cereal | Session, Cession |
| Sew, Sow | Shearn, Sheer | Sheik, Chic | Shoe, Shoo |
| Shone, Shown | Shoot, Chute | Sic, Sick | Side, Sighed |
| Sighs, Size | Sight, Cite | Signet, Cygnet | Slay, Sleigh |
| Sleight, Slight | Soar, Sore | Soared, Sword | Sole, Soul |
| Soled, Sold | Some, Sum | Son, Sun | Staid, Stayed |
| Stairs, Stares | Stake, Steak | Stationary, Stationery | Steal, Steel |
| Step, Steppe | Stile, Style | Straight, Strait | Succour, Sucker |
| Suite, Sweet | Symbol, Cymbal | Tacked, Tact | Tacks, Tax |
| Tail, Tale | Taper, Tapir | Taught, Taut | Tea, Tee |
| Team, Teem | Tear, Tier | Teas, Tease | Tense, Tents |
| Tern, Turn | Their, There | Threw, Through | Throes, Throws |
| Throne, Thrown | Thyme, Time | Tic, Tick | Tide, Tied |
| Too, Two | Toad, Towed | Toe, Tow | Told, Tolled |
| Tracked, Tract | Troop, Troupe | Trussed, Trust | Undo, Undue |
| Urn, Earn | Use, Yews | Vain, Vein | Vale, Veil |
| Vice, Vise | Wade, Weighed | Waist, Waste | Wait, Weight |
| Waive, Wave | Wares, Wears | Warn, Worn | Way, Weigh |
| We, Wee | Weak, Week | Whole, Hole | Wholly, Holy |
| Won, One | Wood, Would | Wrap, Rap | Wrapped, Rapped |
| Wreak, Reek | Wrest, Rest | Wretch, Retch | Wring, Ring |
| Write, Right | Wrote, Rote | Wrung, Rung | Wry, Rye |
| Yew, You | Yews, Use | Yoke, Yolk |
Itulah pengertian homophone disertai contohnya untukmu, LCers! Kalau kamu ingin belajar bahasa Inggris dengan lebih intensive lagi, sini cepat datang ke Kampung Inggris LC! Para teacher di sini udah terbukti jago bahasa Inggris semua, dan siap membuat kamu sama jagonya!
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