List of Homophones
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Homophones are the words that sound the same, yet have different meanings.
| accessary, accessory | dew, due | leach, leech | rouse, rows |
| ad, add | die, dye | lead, led | rung, wrung |
| ail, ale | discreet, discrete | leak, leek | rye, wry |
| air, heir | doe, doh, dough | lean, lien | saver, savour |
| aisle, I’ll, isle | done, dun | lessen, lesson | spade, spayed |
| all, awl | douse, dowse | levee, levy | sale, sail |
| allowed, aloud | draft, draught | liar, lyre | sane, seine |
| alms, arms | dual, duel | licence, license | satire, satyr |
| altar, alter | earn, urn | licker, liquor | sauce, source |
| arc, ark | eery, eyrie | lie, lye | saw, soar, sore |
| aren’t, aunt | ewe, yew, you | lieu, loo | scene, seen |
| ate, eight | faint, feint | links, lynx | scull, skull |
| auger, augur | fah, far | lo, low | sea, see |
| auk, orc | fair, fare | load, lode | seam, seem |
| aural, oral | farther, father | loan, lone | sear, seer, sere |
| away, aweigh | fate, fête | locks, lox | seas, sees, seize |
| awe, oar, or, ore | faun, fawn | loop, loupe | sew, so, sow |
| axel, axle | fay, fey | loot, lute | shake, sheikh |
| aye, eye, I | faze, phase | made, maid | shear, sheer |
| bail, bale | feat, feet | mail, male | shoe, shoo |
| bait, bate | ferrule, ferule | main, mane | sic, sick |
| baize, bays | few, phew | maize, maze | side, sighed |
| bald, bawled | fie, phi | mall, maul | sign, sine |
| ball, bawl | file, phial | manna, manner | sink, synch |
| band, banned | find, fined | mantel, mantle | slay, sleigh |
| bard, barred | fir, fur | mare, mayor | sloe, slow |
| bare, bear | fizz, phiz | mark, marque | sole, soul |
| bark, barque | flair, flare | marshal, martial | some, sum |
| baron, barren | flaw, floor | marten, martin | son, sun |
| base, bass | flea, flee | mask, masque | sort, sought |
| bay, bey | flex, flecks | maw, more | spa, spar |
| bazaar, bizarre | flew, flu, flue | me, mi | staid, stayed |
| be, bee | floe, flow | mean, mien | stair, stare |
| beach, beech | flour, flower | meat, meet, mete | stake, steak |
| bean, been | foaled, fold | medal, meddle | stalk, stork |
| beat, beet | for, fore, four | metal, mettle | stationary, stationery |
| beau, bow | foreword, forward | meter, metre | steal, steel |
| beer, bier | fort, fought | might, mite | stile, style |
| bel, bell, belle | forth, fourth | miner, minor, mynah | storey, story |
| berry, bury | foul, fowl | mind, mined | straight, strait |
| berth, birth | franc, frank | missed, mist | sweet, suite |
| bight, bite, byte | freeze, frieze | moat, mote | swat, swot |
| billed, build | friar, fryer | mode, mowed | tacks, tax |
| bitten, bittern | furs, furze | moor, more | tale, tail |
| blew, blue | gait, gate | moose, mousse | talk, torque |
| bloc, block | galipot, gallipot | morning, mourning | tare, tear |
| boar, bore | gallop, galop | muscle, mussel | taught, taut, tort |
| board, bored | gamble, gambol | naval, navel | te, tea, tee |
| boarder, border | gays, gaze | nay, neigh | team, teem |
| bold, bowled | genes, jeans | nigh, nye | tear, tier |
| boos, booze | gild, guild | none, nun | teas, tease |
| born, borne | gilt, guilt | od, odd | terce, terse |
| bough, bow | giro, gyro | ode, owed | tern, turn |
| boy, buoy | gnaw, nor | oh, owe | there, their, they’re |
| brae, bray | gneiss, nice | one, won | threw, through |
| braid, brayed | gorilla, guerilla | packed, pact | throes, throws |
| braise, brays, braze | grate, great | packs, pax | throne, thrown |
| brake, break | greave, grieve | pail, pale | thyme, time |
| bread, bred | greys, graze | pain, pane | tic, tick |
| brews, bruise | grisly, grizzly | pair, pare, pear | tide, tied |
| bridal, bridle | groan, grown | palate, palette, pallet | tire, tyre |
| broach, brooch | guessed, guest | pascal, paschal | to, too, two |
| bur, burr | hail, hale | paten, patten, pattern | toad, toed, towed |
| but, butt | hair, hare | pause, paws
pores, pours |
told, tolled |
| buy, by, bye | hall, haul | pawn, porn | tole, toll |
| buyer, byre | hangar, hanger | pea, pee | ton, tun |
| calendar, calender | hart, heart | peace, piece | tor, tore |
| call, caul | haw, hoar, whore | peak, peek, peke, pique | tough, tuff |
| canvas, canvass | hay, hey | peal, peel | troop, troupe |
| cast, caste | heal, heel, he’ll | pearl, purl | tuba, tuber |
| caster, castor | hear, here | pedal, peddle | vain, vane, vein |
| caught, court | heard, herd | peer, pier | vale, veil |
| caw, core, corps | he’d, heed | pi, pie | vial, vile |
| cede, seed | heroin, heroine | pica, pika | wail, wale, whale |
| ceiling, sealing | hew, hue | place, plaice | wain, wane |
| cell, sell | hi, high | plain, plane | waist, waste |
| censer, censor, sensor | higher, hire | pleas, please | wait, weight |
| cent, scent, sent | him, hymn | plum, plumb | waive, wave |
| cereal, serial | ho, hoe | pole, poll | wall, waul |
| cheap, cheep | hoard, horde | poof, pouffe | war, wore |
| check, cheque | hoarse, horse | practice, practise | ware, wear, where |
| choir, quire | holey, holy, wholly | praise, prays, preys | warn, worn |
| chord, cord | hour, our | principal, principle | wart, wort |
| cite, sight, site | idle, idol | profit, prophet | watt, what |
| clack, claque | in, inn | quarts, quartz | wax, whacks |
| clew, clue | indict, indite | quean, queen | way, weigh, whey |
| climb, clime | it’s, its | Radical, Radicle
rain, reign, rein |
we, wee, whee |
| close, cloze | jewel, joule | raise, rays, raze | weak, week |
| coal, kohl | key, quay | rap, wrap | we’d, weed |
| coarse, course | knave, nave | raw, roar | weal, we’ll, wheel |
| coign, coin | knead, need | read, reed | wean, ween |
| colonel, kernel | knew, new | read, red | weather, whether |
| complacent, complaisant | knight, night | real, reel | weaver, weever |
| complement, compliment | knit, nit | reek, wreak | weir, we’re |
| coo, coup | knob, nob | rest, wrest | were, whirr |
| cops, copse | knock, nock | retch, wretch | wet, whet |
| council, counsel | knot, not | review, revue | wheald, wheeled |
| cousin, cozen | know, no | rheum, room | which, witch |
| creak, creek | knows, nose | right, rite, wright, write | whig, wig |
| crews, cruise | laager, lager | ring, wring | while, wile |
| cue, kyu, queue | lac, lack | road, rode | whine, wine |
| curb, kerb | lade, laid | roe, row | whirl, whorl |
| currant, current | lain, lane | role, roll | whirled, world |
| cymbol, symbol | lam, lamb | roo, roux, rue | whit, wit |
| dam, damn | laps, lapse | rood, rude | white, wight |
| days, daze | larva, lava | root, route | who’s, whose |
| dear, deer | lase, laze | rose, rows | woe, whoa |
| descent, dissent | law, lore | rota, rotor | wood, would |
| desert, dessert | lay, ley | rote, wrote | yaw, yore, your, you’re |
| deviser, divisor | lea, lee | rough, ruff | yoke, yolk |