Homophone indicators
Listen rather than read: the answer sounds like something.
Homophone indicators refer to speech or hearing. The answer sounds like a word or phrase in the clue but is spelled differently. The indicator usually sits next to the part that is “heard”.
Common Homophone indicators
- aloud
- announced
- announcing
- audibly
- broadcast
- broadcasting
- by the sound of it
- for the audience
- heard
- hearing
- i hear
- in conversation
- it is said
- it's said
- listening
- on air
- on the radio
- orally
- out loud
- overheard
- pronounced
- recited
- reported
- reportedly
- said
- say
- saying
- says
- so to speak
- sound
- sounded
- sounding
- sounds like
- speaking
- spoken
- they say
- to the audience
- to the ear
- told
- uttered
- vocal
- vocally
- voiced
- we hear
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