Homophone means pronounced the same as another word. However the words which are homophones have different meanings and/or spellings.
(“Homo-” means the same, “-phone” means sound. “Homophone” means the same sound.)
Examples:
- The words “mail” and “male” are homophones. ( They are pronounced the same but we can not use “mail” instead of “male” in a sentence.)
- The words “sea” and “see” are homophones. ( They are pronounced the same but we also can not use “sea” instead of “see” in a sentence.
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You can see more homophones in the homophones word list above.
Word | Homophone | Word | Homophone |
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accessary | accessory | ad | add |
ail | ale | air | heir |
aisle | I’ll, isle | al | awl |
allowed | aloud | arc | ark |
aren’t | aunt | ate | eight |
auger | augur | auk | orc |
aural | oral | away | aweigh |
awe | oar | axel | axle |
aye | eye, I | bail | bale |
bait | bate | baize | bays |
bald | bawled | ball | bawl |
band | banned | bare | bear |
bark | barque | baron | barren |
base | bass | bazaar | bizarre |
be | bee | beach | beech |
bean | been | beat | beet |
beer | bier | bel | bell |
berry | bury | berth | birth |
bight | bite | billed | build |
bitten | bittern | blew | blue |
boar | bore | board | bored |
bold | bowled | boos | booze |
born | borne | bough | bow |
boy | buoy | braid | brayed |
braise | brays | brake | break |
bread | bred | briadl | bridle |
but | butt | buy | by, bye |
buyer | byre | calendar | calender |
cast | caste | caster | castor |
caught | court | cede | seed |
ceiling | sealing | cell | sell |
censer | censor | cent | scent, sent |
cereal | serial | cheap | cheep |
check | cheque | choir | quire |
chord | cord | cite | site |
clack | claque | clew | clue |
climb | clime | close | cloze |
coal | kohl | complacent | complaisant |
coo | coup | cops | copse |
council | counsel | cousin | cozen |
creak | creek | crews | cruise |
cue | queue | curb | kerb |
currant | current | cymbol | symbol |
dam | damn | days | daze |
dear | deer | descent | dissent |
desert | dessert | deviser | divisor |
dew | due | die | dye |
discreet | discrete | doe | doh, dough |
done | dun | douse | dowse |
draft | draught | dual | duel |
earn | urn | eery | eyrie |
ewe | yew, you | faint | feint |
fah | far | fair | fare |
farther | father | fate | fête |
faun | fawn | fay | fey |
faze | phase | feat | feet |
fie | phi | file | phial |
find | fined | fir | fur |
fizz | phiz | flair | flare |
flaw | floor | flea | flee |
flex | flecks | flew | flu, flue |
floe | flow | flour | flower |
foaled | fold | for | fore, four |
foreword | forward | fort | fought |
forth | fourth | foul | fowl |
franc | frank | freeze | frieze |
friar | fryer | furs | furze |
gait | gate | galipot | gallipot |
gallop | galop | gamble | gambol |
gays | gaze | genes | jeans |
gild | guild | gilt | guilt |
giro | gyro | gnaw | nor |
gneiss | nice | gorilla | guerilla |
grate | great | greave | grieve |
greys | graze | grisly | grizzly |
groan | grown | guessed | guest |
hail | hale | hair | hare |
hall | haul | hangar | hanger |
hart | heart | haw | hoar, whore |
hay | hey | heal | heel, he’ll |
hear | here | heard | herd |
he’d | heed | heroin | heroine |
hew | hue | hi | high |
higher | hire | him | hymn |
ho | hoe | hoarse | horde |
hoard | horde | hoarse | horse |
holey | holy, wholly | hour | our |
idle | idol | in | inn |
indict | indite | it’s | its |
jewel | joule | key | quay |
knave | nave | knead | need |
knew | new | knight | night |
knit | nit | knob | nob |
knock | nock | knot | not |
know | no | knows | nose |
laager | lager | lac | lack |
lade | laid | it’s | its |
lain | lane | lam | lamb |
laps | lapse | larva | lava |
lase | laze | law | lore |
lay | ley | lea | lee |
leach | leech | lead | led |
leak | leek | lean | lien |
lessen | lesson | levee | levy |
liar | lyre | licence | license |
licker | liquor | lie | lye |
lieu | loo | links | lynx |
lo | low | load | lode |
loan | lone | locks | lox |
loop | loupe | loot | lute |
made | maid | male | |
main | mane | maize | maze |
mall | maul | manna | manner |
mantel | mantle | mare | mayor |
mark | marque | marshal | martial |
marten | martin | mask | masque |
maw | more | me | mi |
mean | mien | meat | meet, mete |
medal | meddle | metal | mettle |
meter | metre | might | mite |
miner | minor, mynah | mind | mined |
missed | mist | moat | mote |
mode | mowed | moor | more |
moose | mousse | morning | mourning |
muscle | mussel | naval | navel |
nay | neight | nigh | nye |
none | nun | od | odd |
ode | owed | oh | owe |
one | won | packed | pact |
packs | pax | pail | pale |
pain | pane | pair | pare, pear |
palate | palette, pallet | pascal | paschal |
paten | patten, pattern | pause | paws, pores, pours |
pawn | porn | pea | pee |
peace | piece | peak | peek, peke, pique |
peal | peel | pearl | purl |
pedal | peddle | peer | pier |
pi | pie | pica | pika |
place | plaice | plain | plane |
pleas | please | plum | plumb |
pole | poll | poof | pouffe |
practice | practise | praise | prays, preys |
principal | principle | profit | prophet |
quarts | quartz | quean | queen |
rain | reign, rein | raise | rays, raze |
rap | wrap | raw | roar |
read | reed, red | real | reel |
reek | wreak | rest | wrest |
retch | wretch | review | revue |
rheum | room | right | rite, wright, write |
ring | wring | road | rode |
roe | row | role | roll |
roo | roux, rue | rood | rude |
root | route | rose | rows |
rota | rotor | rote | wrote |
rough | ruff | rouse | rows |
rung | wrung | rye | wry |
saver | savour | spade | spayed |
sale | sail | sane | seine |
satire | satyr | sauce | source |
saw | soar, sore | scene | seen |
scull | skull | sea | see |
seam | seem | sear | seer, sere |
seas | sees, seize | sew | so, sow |
shake | sheikh | shear | sheer |
shoe | shoo | sic | sick |
side | sighed | sign | sine |
sink | synch | slay | sleigh |
sloe | slow | sole | soul |
some | sum | son | sun |
sort | sought | spa | spar |
staid | stayed | stair | stare |
stake | steak | stalk | stork |
stationary | stationery | steal | steel |
stile | style | storey | story |
straight | strait | sweet | suite |
swat | swot | tacks | tax |
tale | tail | talk | torque |
tare | tear | taught | taut, tort |
te | tea, tee | team | teem |
tear | tier | teas | tease |
terce | terse | tern | turn |
there | their | threw | through |
throes | throws | throne | thrown |
thyme | time | tic | tick |
tide | tied | tire | tyre |
to | too, two | toad | towed |
told | tolled | tole | toll |
ton | tun | tor | tore |
tough | tuff | troop | troupe |
tuba | tuber | vain | vane |
vale | veil | vial | vile |
wail | wale | wain | wane |
waist | waste | wait | weight |
waive | wave | wall | waul |
war | wore | ware | wear, where |
warn | worn | wart | wort |
watt | what | wax | whacks |
way | weigh, whey | we | wee, whee |
weak | week | we’d | weed |
weal | we’ll | wean | ween |
weather | whether | weaver | weever |
weir | we’re | were | whirr |
wet | whet | wheald | wheeled |
which | witch | whig | wig |
while | wile | whine | wine |
whirl | whorl | whirled | world |
whit | wit | white | wight |
who’s | whose | woe | whoa |
wood | would | yaw | yore, your, you’re |
yoke | yolk | you’ll | yule |
Source: http://www.singularis.ltd.uk/bifroest/misc/homophones-list.html
Kindly add a seperate column with there meaning as well….it hard to understand the word without proper meaning …everytime you have to see the dictionary to know the meaning …
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