sound alike
Homonyms do this
Sound alike describes things that have similar pronunciation, especially words that can be confused because they sound the same or nearly so: Their and there are sound-alikes that trip up many writers.
The term often appears in discussions of commonly confused words, misheard lyrics, or generic products marketed under names resembling famous brands.
- homophoneIdentically pronounced, differently spelled word
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- echoReflected sound wave
- near missNarrowly averted incident
- twinOne of matched pair
spitting image · dead ringer · mimic · copycat · doppelganger · match · pair · same difference · identical · phonetic · pronunciation · confuse · mishear · pun · plays on words · wordplay · accent · dialect
- wordplaypun, puns, punning, punny, punster
- crosswordsacross, cryptic, acrostic, clues, codeword
- imitationcopy, copycat, imitation, mimicking, replica
- mental associationfree association, word association, mental association, mental link, connection