Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Homophone

Homophone , noun

[Compare French homophone. See Homophonous.]

1.
A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. — Gliddon
2.
A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.