homophone, /'hɑmə,fon/

[trochee]

peak: noun: the tip of a mountain
peek: noun: short look; verb: to take a short look
pique: noun: anger, frustration, irritation; verb, to stimulate, especially as in to pique s.o.'s interest, probably only distantly related to the nominal sense; (noun: apparently also a fabric and a way of inlaying tortoiseshell, though they may be pronounced /pike/ not /pik/, disqualifying them as homophones).

[update from marnanel:]
Peke: noun, slangy: a small yappy dog (from Pekinese)
[update from _dkg_:]
peek: verb, computer jargon: to read the value of a memory location directly

Comments

[firinel.livejournal.com]

I always have trouble with homophones. I usually remember spelling based on sound, which is a rather silly thing to do if you're hard of hearing anyway.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

Peke: small yappy dog

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

pique means Spades in French.
piquer also means to sting. Hee.
ooh and ...piquer is also slang for to steal.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_dkg_/]

And don't forget the jargon file's definition of peek. While probably not a strict homophone (does identical spelling disqualify from homophony?), and obviously derived from the original peek, it's a strongly distinct meaning (at least in my own muddled head).

[solri.livejournal.com]

Peek is also a heat-resistant carbon fibre (poly-ether ether ketone).

[ex-caracola454.livejournal.com]

/pik/ clipping of "PK" (Pastor's Kid), as in "Miriam is a PK."

[la-chispa.livejournal.com]

I read the "s.o." in "as in to pique s.o.'s interest" as "significant other, which added even more layers to the discussion in my head.