Homophones (ntbcw homonyms) are two or more words pronounced the same, but differ in meaning and spelling.
Examples include:
Cue and queue.
Root and route.
Write and right.
Peace and piece.
Ball and bawl.
New and knew.
Son and sun.
Raw and roar.
Week and weak.
Birth and berth.
Soul and sole.
Stake and steak.
Knight and night.
Wait and weight.
Coarse and course.
Meet and meat.
Bail and bale.
Poll and pole.
Wail and whale.
Steal and steel.
Fate and fete.
Paw and pour.
Etc etc.
Time to spice shit up.
Video games
Cyberia and Syberia
Chequered Flag¹ (1988) and Checkered Flag² (1991)
¹Unrelated to 1983 home computer simulation of same name.
²Remade for the Jaguar in 1994.
Bands and Films
Incubus and Inkubus
S.C.U.M. and Scum
Films
Thor, Four and Thaw
Sx_Tape and Sex Tape
Coma and Koma
Dredd and Dread
Hair and Her
9 and Nine
Night Moves and Knight Moves
Sliver and Slither
13 and Thirteen
Brake and Break (2009), (2018), (2019) and (2020³)
³Rutger Hauer's final film very briefly stars real-life snooker professionals Jack Lisowski, Liang Wengbo and Ken Doherty.
Albums and Films
The 13th Floor (Sirenia) and The Thirteenth Floor
The Kids are Alright (The Who) and The Kids are All Right
Bare (Annie Lennox) and Bear
Birds of Pray (Live) and Birds of Prey⁴
Good Mourning (Alkaline Trio) and Good Morning
The E.N.D. (Black Eyed Peas) and The End
7 (Madness) and Seven
⁴(and the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn).
Film and games
Bee Movie and B-Movie
Armageddon and Armour-Geddon
School Daze and Skool Daze
Fire and Ice and Fire & Ice
Excalibur and Excaliba
Just to make things complicated.
Underworld⁵ and Underwurlde
⁵Freur performed the music for Transmutations (1985) and synthpop group would later evolve into Underworld (name taken from film's alternative title).
Versus and Vs.⁶
⁶Localised version of Fighters' Impact, which was initially only released in Japan for PS1. Subsequent arcade version was retitled Fighters' Impact A.
WHY?
Characters
One pie. Many slices.
Alice (Resident Evil) and Alyce (Alyce Kills)
Rafael (Rio) and Raphael (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Hewie (Haunting Ground) and Huey (Duck Tales)
S.E.T.H. (Universal Soldier: The Return) and Seth (Street Fighter IV)
Goza (Gargoyle's Quest II: The Demon Darkness) and Gozer (Ghostbusters 1984)
Fio (Metal Slug 2) and Theo (Die Hard)
Berk (The Trap Door) and Burke (Aliens)
Melina (Total Recall 1990) and Mileena (Mortal Kombat II)
Silene (Fighters' Impact) and Selene (Underworld)
Holli Would (Cool World) and Holly Wood (Final Fight)
Gil (Karate Blazers) and Gill (Street Fighter III: New Generation)
Chuckie (Rug Rats) and Chucky (Child's Play 1988)
Cable (Marvel) and Kable (Gamer)
Cammie (The Great Outdoors) and Cammy (Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers)
Acta est fabula.
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