French is a language with many homophones. Common examples of homophones in English include flour/flower, meat/meet and son/sun. However, French also has many homophones.
Here is a list of French homophones:
auteur/hauteur (author/height)
dans/dent (in/tooth)
guère/guerre (hardly/war)
maire/mer/mère (mayor/sea/mother)
pain/pin (bread/pine)
peau/pot (skin/pot)
renne/reine (reindeer/queen)
cent/sang/sans (hundred/blood/without)
sou/sous (cent/under)
ver/verre/vers/vert (worm/glass/towards/green)
The list illlustrates that French is a language of many homophones. Many of the words from the list have silent letters. Though the words are spelt differently, they sound the same.
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