Homophones
Words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings.
| ad/add | affect/effect | ail/ale | aisle/I'll | ant/aunt | ate/eight |
| be/bee | beach/beech | beat/beet | bald/bawled | bare/bear | base/bass |
| billed/build | blew/blue | by/bye/buy | cell/sell | cent/scent/sent | chili/chilly |
| close/clothes | days/daze | dear/deer | do/dew/due | die/dye | died/dyed |
| doe/dough | earn/urn | ewe/yew/you | facts/fax | fare/fair | fairy/ferry |
| feat/feet | fir/fur | flea/flee | flew/flu/flue | flour/flower | for/fore/four |
| forth/fourth | foul/fowl | groan/grown | guessed/guest | gym/Jim | hair/hare |
| hairy/Harry | hall/haul | halve/have | he'd/heed | heal/heel | hear/here |
| heard/herd | hi/high | him/hymn | hour/our | idle/idol | in/inn |
| it's/its | knead/need | know/no | knows/nose | lay/lei | lead/led |
| leak/leek | lends/lens | lessen/lesson | lie/lye | links/lynx | loan/lone |
| lochs/locks/lox | made/maid | mail/male | main/mane | maize/maze | mall/maul |
| manner/manor | massed/mast | meat/meet | missed/mist | moan/mown | moose/mousse |
| morning/mourning | muscle/mussel | navel/naval | none/nun | not/knot | oar/or/ore |
| oh/owe | one/won | overdo/overdue | pail/pale | pane/pain | pair/pare/pear |
| passed/past | pause/paws | pea/pee | peace/piece | peak/peek | pedal/peddle |
| pi/pie | plane/plain | pole/poll | pray/prey | presence/presents | pride/pryed |
| prince/prints | profit/prophet | pros/prose | quarts/quartz | racket/racquet | rain/reign |
| raise/rays/raze | rap/wrap | read/red | read/reed | real/reel | recede/reseed |
| review/revue | roe/row | right/rite/write | ring/wring | road/rode/rowed | roam/Rome |
| role/roll | root/route | rote/wrote | rough/ruff | rye/wry | sachet/sashay |
| sacks/sax | sail/sale | scene/seen | sea/see | seam/seem | sear/seer |
| serf/surf | sew/so | shoe/shoo | sic/sick | sighs/size | Sioux/sue |
| slay/sleigh | soar/sore | sole/soul | some/sum | son/sun | sonny/sunny |
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soot/suit |
stair/stare | stake/steak |
straight/strait |
suite/sweet |
tea/tee |
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team/teem |
tense/tents |
tern/turn |
their/there/they're |
threw/through |
throne/thrown |
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tic/tick |
to/too/two |
toad/told |
toe/tow |
toon/tune |
urn/earn |
| vain/vein | vary/very | verses/versus | vial/vile | vice/vise | wade/weighed |
| wail/whale | waist/waste | waive/wave | walk/wok | war/wore | ware/wear/where |
| we/wee | we'd/weed | we're/were | weak/week | whine/wine | whoa/woe |
| wood/would | yoke/yolk | you're/your | you'll/yule |
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