HOMONYMS
Homonyms are words that sound alike but are spelled
differently. Here are some examples:
(way, weigh) Which way are you going? How much
does the truck weigh?
(week, weak) A week of heavy work will make you
feel weak.
(whole, hole) He dumped the whole load of sand into
the excavated hole.
(wood, would) He would like to saw wood.
The list of homonyms:
aisle, isle aunt,ant beat, beet beau, bow been, bin bell, belle berth, birth bier, beer blew, blue board, bored bough, bow brake, break buy, by canvas, canvass, ceiling, sealing cell, sell cellar, sellar cent, sent, scent cereal, serial |
chord, cord cite, sight,
site clause, claws coarse, course creak, creek currant, current dear, deer dew, due die, dye done, dun earn, urn fair, fare faint, feint feat, feet fir, fur flea, flee flew, flue flour, flower fore, four, for foul, fowl gait, gate great, grate groan, grown hair, hare hall, haul hale, hail heal, heel hear, here |
heard, herd heir, air hoes, hose hole, whole hour, our idol, idle in, inn kernel, colonel knead, need know, new knot, not know, no lain, lane lead, led lessen, lesson lie, lye loan, lone made, made mail, male main, mane manner, mane mantel, mantle meat, meet medal, meddle miner, minor moan, mown muscle, mussel none, nun |
one, won pail, pale pain, pane pair, pare, pear peal, peel, plain, plane pore, pour pray, prey pride, pried principle,
principal profit, prophet rain, rein,
reign raise, raze read, reed real, reel, rest, wrest rhyme, rime right,
write,wright, rite ring, wring road, rode,
rowed role, roll rose, rows rough, ruff sail, sale scene, seen |
sea, see seam, seem sent, scent,
cent sew, saw, so shone, shown sight, cite,
site slay, sleigh soar, sore, sole, soul some, sum son, sun stake, steak stair, stare stationary,stationery steal, steel straight, strait suite, sweet tail, tale their, there throne, thrown threw, through to, too, two toe, tow vail, veil, vale vain, vane, vein vice, vise wade, weighed ware, wear,
where wrote, rote |