Homophones

Words that SOUND ALIKE, but are spelled DIFFERENTLY and have DIFFERENT MEANINGS.

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1. red/read

2. meat/meet

3. hear/here

4. flee/flea

5. cent/scent/sent

6. do/due/dew

7. no/know

8. pale/pail

9. sew/so/sow

10. ate/eight

11. clothes/close

12. forth/fourth

13. peek/peak

14. seem/seam

15. ceiling/sealing

16. need/knead

17. role/roll

18. soar/sore

19. bread/bred

20. way/weigh

21. gored/gourd

22. meddle/medal

23. bell/belle

24. mussel/muscle

25. tense/tents

26. shoo/shoe

27. blew/blue

28. dye/die

29. haul/hall

30. sale/sail

31. new/gnu/knew

32. bawled/bald

33. cord/chord

34. missed/mist

35. peer/pier

36. sight/site

37. weight/wait

38. stair/stare

39. pole/poll

40. loan/lone

41. tail/tale

42. nose/knows

43. flower/flour

44. cheap/cheep

45. break/brake

46. colonel/kernel

47. hanger/hangar

48. creak/creek

49. tacks/tax

50. road/rode/rowed

51. pear/pair/pare

52. heel/heal

53. fur/fir

54. buy/by

55. led/lead

56. beet/beat

57. fare/fair

58. mail/male

59. rain/rein/reign

60. ant/aunt

61. bough/bow

62. night/knight

63. principle, principal

64. throne/thrown

65. profit/prophet

66. read/reed

67. lie/lye

68. idle/idol

69. tow/toe

70. sum/some

71. peddle/pedal

72. course/coarse

73. grown/groan

74. maid/made

75. rap/wrap

76. seen/scene

77. would/wood

78. birth/berth

79. daze/days

80. whole/hole

81. maize/maze

82. carrot/carat

83. miner/minor

84. feet/feat

85. lay/lei

86. soul/sole

87. vein/vane/vain

88. gate/gait

89. mourning/morning

90. rays/raise

91. bear/bare

92. him/hymn

93. burrow/burro

94. through/threw

95. plain/plane

96. steel/steal

97. berry/bury

98. week/weak

99. horse/hoarse

100. flu/flew/flue

101. taught/taut

102. be/bee

103. not/knot

104. write/right

105. dough/doe

106. heard/herd

107. fowl/foul

108. too/two/too

109. alter/altar

110. cereal/serial

111. praise/prays/preys

112. there/their/they're

113. patients/patience

114. sell/cell

115. for/four/fore

116. in/inn

117. aisle/isle/I'll

118. son/sun

119. piece/peace

120. hare/hair

121. main/mane

122. pain/pane

123. whale/wail

124. crews/cruise

125. bored/board

126. air/heir

127. weed/we'd

128. team/teem

129. presents/presence

130. correspondence/correspondents

131. censor/sensor

132. illusive/elusive

133. waive/wave

134. cast/caste

135. baste/based

136. heirs/airs

137. clause/claws

138. manner/manor

139. session/cession

140. callous/callus

141. all/awl

142. bail/bale

143. dependents/dependence

144. bytes/bites

145. banned/band

146. current/currant

147. hostile/hostel

148. imminent/eminent

149. ball/bawl

150. hay/hey

151. real/reel

152. aid/aide

153. bridal/bridle

154. but/butt

155. capital/capitol

156. fairy/ferry

157. pause/paws

158. ring/wring

159. seas/sees/seize

160. tea/tee

161. tide/tied

162. waste/waist

163. arc/ark

164. baron/barren

165. boll/bowl

166. bore/boar

167. cache/cash

168. canvas/canvass

169. carol/carrel

170. chute/shoot

171. symbol/cymbal

172. prince/prints

173. who's/whose

174. bolder/boulder

175. pleas/please

176. sense/scents

177. navel/naval

178. doc/dock

179. world/whirled