👉 Heterophonic is a linguistic term that refers to words or phrases that have different root sounds, but are written in a way that does not necessarily correspond to one another. This can occur due to the fact that the word was written as two separate words with different meanings. For example, "apple" and "banana" both have the root sound of "a-pple," however, they are written differently because of this heterophonic structure. The first syllable of "apple" is