In the English language, some words sound the same but have different spellings and meanings—these are called homophones. Using the wrong word can change the entire meaning of a sentence, making it important to understand their differences. For example:
✔ There are seven days in a week.
❌ There are seven days in a weak.
This blog post provides a comprehensive homophones list to improve your vocabulary. Visual demonstrations are included to help learners, and a PDF file is available for easy reference.
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List of Homophones
A
- Allowed – Aloud
- All Ready – Already
- Alms – Arms
- Ad – Add
- Abel – Able
- Affected – Effected
- Air – Heir
- Affect – Effect
- Accede – Exceed
- Ant – Aunt
- Altar – Alter
- Accept – Except
- Ate – Eight
- Addition – Edition
B
- Blue – Blew
- Beer – Bier
- Bridal – Bridle
- Buy – By – Bye
- Bored – Board
- Broach – Brooch
- Beet – Beat
- Break – Brake
- Band – Banned
- But – Butt
- Bard – Barred
- Bare – Bear
- Beach – Beech
- Bury – Berry
- Bight – Bite
C
- Cache – Cash
- Caddie – Caddy
- Cheap – Cheep
- Complement – Compliment
- Cite – Sight – Site
- Core – Corps
- Creak – Creek
- Cereal – Serial
- Census – Sense
- Chili – Chilly
- Cellar – Seller
- Course – Coarse
- Capital – Capitol
D
- Dyeing – Dying
- Discreet – Discrete
- Deer – Dear
- Die – Dye
- Draft – Draught
E – F
- Earn – Urn
- Fort – Forte
- Flaw – Floor
- Farther – Father
- Fare – Fair
- Flu – Flue – Flew
- Flower – Flour
- Fax – Facts
- Fort – Fought
- Flow – Floe
- Foreword – Forward
- Feat – Feet
G – H
- Graphed – Graft
- Gait – Gate
- Gnu – Knew – New
- Graft – Graphed
- Gorilla – Guerilla
- Great – Grate
- Gamble – Gambol
- Holed – Hold
- Hoes – Hose
- Higher – Hire
- Hole – Whole
- Hoarse – Horse
- Hear – Here
- Hire – Higher
- Hart – Heart
- Hour – Our
I – L
- I – Eye
- Leased – Least
- Lessen – Lesson
- Lone – Loan
- Led – Lead
- Lode – Load
- Loan – Lone
K – M
- Knew – New
- Know – No
- Knead – Need
- Knot – Not
- Mail – Male
- Mall – Maul
- Mowed – Mode
- Marc – Mark
- Mints – Mince
- Missal – Missile
- Mite – Might
- Missed – Mist
N – P
- Night – Knight
- Nay – Neigh
- Niece – Nice
- Need – Knead
- One – Won
- Overseas – Oversees
- Principal – Principle
- Pedal – Peddle
- Pore – Pour
- Pole – Poll
- Plum – Plumb
- Profit – Prophet
- Pain – Pane
- Pair – Pare
- Plane – Plain
R
- Read – Reed
- Real – Reel
- Rows – Rose
- Room – Rheum
- Root – Route
- Roe – Row
- Rain – Reign
- Rode – Road
- Right – Write
- Role – Roll
- Ring – Wring
- Red – Read
S
- Sane – Seine
- Sole – Soul
- Sun – Son
- Scene – Seen
- Saver – Savor
- Steal – Steel
- Stare – Stair
- Sail – Sale
- Some – Sum
T
- Toe – Tow
- Tail – Tale
- To – Too – Two
- Team – Teem
- Tide – Tied
V – W – Y
- Veil – Vale
- Vain – Vein
- Which – Witch
- Waste – Waist
- Wear – Where
- Weak – Week
- Won – One
- Weather – Whether
- Yoke – Yolk
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