A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. A homophone may also differ in spelling.
Homophones that are spelled the same are also both homographs and homonyms.
A Homograph is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning
Homonyms, broadly defined, are words which sound alike or are spelled alike, but have different meanings
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List of Homophones A to D
ad | add |
allowed | aloud |
altar | alter |
ate | eight |
aye | eye |
band | banned |
be | bee |
bean | been |
beat | beet |
billed | build |
blew | blue |
board | bored |
but | butt |
buy | by |
cell | sell |
cent | scent |
cereal | serial |
close | cloze |
council | counsel |
dear | deer |
die | dye |
duel | dual |
List of Homophones E to K
fair | fare |
flea | flee |
flew | flu |
flour | flower |
foreword | forward |
hear | here |
heard | herd |
heroin | heroine |
hi | high |
higher | hire |
him | hymn |
hoard | horde |
hour | our |
idle | idol |
in | inn |
knead | need |
knew | new |
knight | night |
knit | nit |
knot | not |
know | no |
knows | nose |
List of Homophones L to R
leak | leek |
lessen | lesson |
links | lynx |
meat | meet |
missed | mist |
morning | mourning |
muscle | mussel |
naval | navel |
oh | owe |
one | won |
pair | pear |
pea | pee |
peace | piece |
peak | peek |
rain | reign |
raise | rays |
read | red |
real | reel |
role | roll |
rose | rows |
rote | wrote |
List of Homophones S TO Z
scene | seen |
sea | see |
side | sighed |
slay | sleigh |
some | sum |
son | sun |
stair | stare |
stake | steak |
stalk | stork |
sweet | suite |
there | their |
threw | through |
throne | thrown |
to | too |
waist | waste |
wait | weight |
waive | wave |
war | wore |
way | weigh |
weak | week |
we’d | weed |
weather | whether |
which | witch |
whine | wine |
wood | would |
More Information
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