oronym

oronym

English

Etymology

oro- +‎ -onym

Noun

Examples (phrase that sounds the same)
"I scream" / "ice cream" "that's tough" / "that stuff" "four candles" / "fork handles"

oronym (plural oronyms)

1. A word or phrase that sounds the same as another word or phrase.
   • 2008, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins, page 101:

     An oronym that comes from mishearing the lyrics of a song is most often called a mondegreen.

   • 2010, Andrew Nevins, Locality in Vowel Harmony, page 203:

     Vowel harmony may serve the purpose of parsing the morphosyntactic words in phrases (i.e., oronym avoidance).

   • 2012, Rod L. Evans, Tyrannosaurus Lex, chapter 14:

     The comedian Jeff Foxworthy often uses oronyms in his Appalachian comedy routine, as when he uses a sentence with moustache: "I moustache [must ask] you a question."

2. The toponym of a mountain.

See also

• eggcorn
• homophone
• mondegreen

Anagrams

• Monroy