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:

  1. allowed aloud
  2. aunt aren’t
  3. ball bawl
  4. base bass
  5. be bee
  6. bear bare
  7. berry bury
  8. blue blew
  9. boar bore
  10. board bored
  11. bread bred
  12. buy by
  13. by bye
  14. cereal serial
  15. check cheque
  16. council counsel
  17. course coarse
  18. dam damn
  19. deer dear
  20. die dye
  21. doe dough
  22. earn urn
  23. eight ate
  24. faint feint
  25. farther father
  26. feet feat
  27. find fined
  28. flair flare
  29. floor flaw
  30. flower flour
  1. for four
  2. fur fir
  3. great grate
  4. hart heart
  5. heal heel
  6. hear here
  7. heard herd
  8. hi high
  9. hole whole
  10. idle idol
  11. in inn
  12. it’s its
  13. jeans genes
  14. lane lain
  15. lead led
  16. least leased
  17. loan lone
  18. male mail
  19. meet meat
  20. mind mined
  21. morning mourning
  22. naval navel
  23. new knew
  24. no know
  25. one won
  26. pear pair
  27. pie pi
  28. piece peace
  29. pier peer
  30. poor pour
  1. rain reign
  2. raw roar
  3. read reed
  4. red read
  5. road rode
  6. sale sail
  7. saw sore
  8. see sea
  9. sun son
  10. tail tale
  11. tea tee
  12. their they’re
  13. they’re there
  14. tide tied
  15. too to
  16. two too
  17. wail whale
  18. warn worn
  19. weal wheel
  20. wear where
  21. weather whether
  22. week weak
  23. weight wait
  24. while wile
  25. wood would
  26. write right
  27. yew you
  28. your you’re