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