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 | |
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.
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