American English Homophones

Homophones are words that are pronounced the same even if their spelling is different. The words in each row below are pronounced the same in most varieties of American English.

aisle	isle
ant	aunt
ate	eight
bare	bear
be	bee
blew	blue
brake	break
buy	by
capital	capitol
cell	sell
cellar	seller
cent	sent	scent
chord	cord
dear	deer
die	dye
fair	fare
flea	flee
flour	flower
foul	fowl
guest	guessed
heal	heel
hear	here
heir	air
hole	whole
hour	our
in	inn
its	it's
knew	new
knot	not
know	no
lead	led
loan	lone
made	maid
mail	male
meat	meet
night	knight
one	won
pail	pale
pair	pare	pear
peace	piece
plain	plane
pray	prey
principal	principle
rain	rein	reign
read	red
real	reel
right	write	rite
road	rode	rowed
role	roll
sail	sale
scene	seen
sea	see
sew	sow	so
shone	shown
sight	site	cite
soar	sore
sole	soul
some	sum
son	sun
stair	stare
stake	steak
stationary	stationery
steal	steel
tail	tale
their	there	they're
threw	through
to	too	two
vain	vane	vein
waist	waste
wait	weight
way	weigh
week	weak
whose	who's
wood	would
your	you're

Note: Your and you're are not always pronounced the same, especially in careful speech.