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

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