What is difference between quiet and quite?

Quiet is an adjective used to describe something or someone that makes very little noise: For example:- During the exam the classroom was very quiet. Quite is an adverb used to describe when something is a little or a lot but not completely. For example:- It was quite quiet at work today.

What does it mean when a word sounds the same but spelled differently?

Homophones
Homophones are words that sound the same but are different in meaning or spelling. Homographs are spelled the same, but differ in meaning or pronunciation. Homonyms can be either or even both. Among these are the large number of words that are spelled differently but which sound the same.

Is quite and quiet homophones?

Quiet and quite are not homophones. They don’t sound the same when pronounced, but they are quite similar.

What is opposite of quite?

quite. Antonyms: partially, imperfectly, barely, insufficiently, hardly. Synonyms: perfectly, entirely, completely, wholly, truly, altogether, totally.

What are two words that sound alike but spelled differently?

Homophones are a type of homonym that also sound alike and have different meanings, but have different spellings. HOMOGRAPHS are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings….

HOMONYM WORDS SOUND	HOMOPHONE WORDS type of homonym
same sound	same sound
same OR different spelling	different spelling

Is Quiet one or two syllables?

But quiet is two syllables “qui / et” quiet = shush! Be quiet.

How do you tell the difference between quite and quiet?

A good way to remember the difference is to focus on the pronunciation. We pronounce quiet with the final -et made clear. For quite, the final -e is silent. If you focus on the pronunciation of the words then it shouldn’t be difficult to distinguish them.