Homophones and Homographs

<p> This expanded fourth edition defines and cross-references 9,040 homophones and 2,133 homographs (up from 7,870 and 1,554 in the 3rd ed.).</p><p> As the most comprehensive compilation of American homophones (words that sound alike) and homographs (look-alikes), this latest edition serves well where even the most modern spell-checkers and word processors fail--although <I>rain, reign,</I> and <I>rein</I> may be spelled correctly, the context in which t