Common Homophones
List of Common Homophones
Homophones are words that sound the same as each other, but have different
spellings and meanings. Here are some common examples:
- allowed aloud
- aunt aren’t
- ball bawl
- base bass
- be bee
- bear bare
- berry bury
- blue blew
- boar bore
- board bored
- bread bred
- buy by
- by bye
- cereal serial
- check cheque
- council counsel
- course coarse
- dam damn
- deer dear
- die dye
- doe dough
- earn urn
- eight ate
- faint feint
- farther father
- feet feat
- find fined
- flair flare
- floor flaw
- flower flour
- for four
- fur fir
- great grate
- hart heart
- heal heel
- hear here
- heard herd
- hi high
- hole whole
- idle idol
- in inn
- it’s its
- jeans genes
- lane lain
- lead led
- least leased
- loan lone
- male mail
- meet meat
- mind mined
- morning mourning
- naval navel
- new knew
- no know
- one won
- pear pair
- pie pi
- piece peace
- pier peer
- poor pour
- rain reign
- raw roar
- read reed
- red read
- road rode
- sale sail
- saw sore
- see sea
- sun son
- tail tale
- tea tee
- their they’re
- they’re there
- tide tied
- too to
- two too
- wail whale
- warn worn
- weal wheel
- wear where
- weather whether
- week weak
- weight wait
- while wile
- wood would
- write right
- yew you
- your you’re