“She mistook hoarse for horse.”
Homophones Entry 1555 / 1605 60-second read
Hoarse vs. Horse
Rough-voiced versus the animal.
The comparisoni
“She mistook hoarse for horse — they sound alike but mean different things: Rough-voiced versus the animal.”
The ruleii
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HOARSE ≠ HORSE.
Hoarse and Horse are homophones — pronounced the same. Rough-voiced versus the animal. Different meanings, different roles in a sentence.
Memory aidiii
Remember it like this
HOARSE vs HORSE — same sound, different meaning.