I have a treat for you: an updated version of this 20-year-old site.Homophones
same pronunciation
different spelling
different meaning
a
air heir ere ... aisle isle I'll ... altar alter ... ant aunt ... ate eight
b
balm bomb ... bare
bear ... base, bass instrument
... beach beech ... beat
beet
beau bow ... been
bin ... beer bier ... berry,
bury ... berth birth ... bedding
betting ...
billed build ... bite
byte ... blew, blue ... boar
bore ... board bored ... born
borne
boro borough burro burrow ... bough
bow ... boll bowl
brake break ... bread
bred ... bridal bridle ... buy
by bye
c
cache cash ... capital
capitol ... cast, caste ... cell
sell ... cent sent scent ... cereal
serial
cheap cheep ... check
cheque Czech ... chews choose ...
choral coral
cite sight site ... close
clothes ... coarse course ... colonel
kernel
complement compliment ... core
corps ... coup coo
d
dam damn ... dear deer ... dew do due ... doe dough ... done dun ... ducks ducts
e
f
fair fare ... fill
Phil ... find fined ... for
(unstressed) fir fur
flea flee ... flew
flu flue ... flour flower
for fore four ... forth
fourth ... freeze frees frieze
g
h
hair hare ... heard
herd ... hear here ... heed
he'd ... hi high
him hymn ... higher
hire ... hole whole ... hoarse
horse ... hour
our
i
j
k
knight night ... knit nit ... knot not ... know no
l
lead n. led v ... lessen lesson ... liar lyre
m
meat meet mete ... mean mien ... moan mown ... mode mowed ... morning mourning
n
need knead ... new
knew gnu ... night knight
Nome gnome ... none
nun ... not knot
o
oar or ore ... one won
p
pain pane ... pear pair pare ... peace
piece ... peak peek pique ... per
purr
peer pier ... poor pore ... principal
principle ... pudding putting
q
r
rain reign ... rap
wrap ... read, reed ... read,
red ... right rite wright
road rode ... rose
rows ... rote wrote
s
sea see ... seas
sees seize c's ... scene seen ...
sell cell ... shone
shown
shoe shoo ... sight site cite... slay
sleigh ... some, sum ... son,
sun
stair
stare ... stationary stationery
... steal steel ... straight
strait
t
t
taught taut ... their
there they're ... threw through thru
throne thrown ... tie
Thai ... thyme time ... to
too two
u
v
w
wail whale wale ... wait
weight ... war wore ... ware
wear where
warn worn ... way
weigh whey ... what are you, what
do you
weal wheel ... wine
whine ... wrote rote