Alphabetical List of Common English Homophones

ad/add

allowed/aloud

ant/aunt

ate/eight

ball/bawl

band/banned

bear/bare

be/bee

billed/build

blew/blue

board/bored

boy/buoy

brake/break

by/bye/buy

beach/beech

bolder/boulder

bread/bred

brouse/brows

capital/capitol

caret/carrot/carat/karat

cell/sell

cent/scent/sent

census/senses

cereal/serial

chews/choose

choral/coral

chute/shoot

clothes/close

colonel/kernel

creak/creek

crews/cruise

cymbal/symbol

days/daze

dear/deer

dew/do/due

die/dye

disc/disk

discreet/discrete

discussed/disgust

doe/dough

doughs/doze

earn/urn

ewe/you

eye/I

fare/fair

feat/feet

find/fined

fir/fur

flea/flee

flew/flu/flue

flower/flour

for/four/fore

forth/fourth

foul/fowl

frees/freeze

gneiss/nice

gnu/knew/new

gored/gourd

gorilla/guerrilla

grays/graze

grate/great

guessed/guest

gym/Jim

hale/hail

hall/haul

hare/hair

heal/heel/he'll

heard/herd

hew/hue

hi/high

higher/hire

him/hymm

hair/hare

hoarse/horse

hole/whole

hour/our

idle/idol

idle/idol/idyl

in/inn

incite/insight

its/it's

jam/jamb

jeans/genes

knead/need/kneed

knight/night

knows/nose/no's

lead/led

leased/least

lessen/lesson

lie/lye

links/lynx

load/lode/lowed loan/lone

locks/lox

loot/lute

maid/made

 

 

 

mail/male

maize/maze

meet/meat

medal/meddle

mince/mints

miner/minor missed/mist

mooed/mood

morning/mourning

muscle/mussel

mussed/must

nays/neighs

no/know

none/nun

nose/knows/no's

not/knot/naught

one/won

or/oar/ore

overdo/overdue

paced/paste

pail/pale

pain/pane

pair/pare/pear

pain/pane passed/past

patience/patients

pause/paws

peace/piece

peak/peek/pique

peal/peel

pedal/peddle

peer/pier

pi/pie

plain/plane

plum/plumb

praise/prays/preys

presence/presents

principal/principle

prince/prints

quarts/quartz

quince/quints

rain/reign/rein

raise/rays/raze

rap/wrap

read/reed

read/red

real/reel

reek/wreak

 

rest/wrest

review/revue

right/rite/write

ring/wring

road/rode/rowed

roe/row role/roll

root/route

rose/rows

rote/wrote

roux/rue

rye/wry

sacks/sax

sail/sale

sawed/sod

scene/seen

sea/see

seam/seem

seas/sees/seize

serf/surf

serge/surge

sew/so/sow

shoe/shoo

side/sighed

sighs/size

sign/sine

sight/site/cite

slay/sleigh

soar/sore

soared/sword

sole/soul

son/sun

some/sum

spade/spayed

staid/stayed

stair/stare

stake/steak

stationary/stationery

steal/steel

straight/strait

suede/swayed

summary/summery

sundae/Sunday

tacks/tax

tail/tale

taut/taught

tea/tee

teas/tease/tees

tents/tense

 

tents/tense

tern/turn

there/their/they're

threw/through

throne/thrown

thyme/time

tide/tied

tighten/titan

to/too/two

toad/toed/towed

toe/tow

told/tolled

tracked/tract

trussed/trust

vein/vane

verses/versus

vial/vile

vice/vise

wade/weighed

wail/whale

waist/waste

wait/weight

waive/wave

Wales/whales

war/wore

ware/wear/where

warn/worn

wax/whacks

way/weigh/whey

we/wee

weather/whether

we'd/weed

weld/welled

we'll/wheel

wen/when

we've/weave

weak/week

which/witch

whirled/world

whirred/word

whine/wine

whoa/woe

who's/whose

wood/would

worst/wurst

yoke/yolk

you'll/yule

your/you're/yore