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Homophones: A Huge List of 400+Common Homophones in English

Homophones: A Huge List of 400+Common Homophones in English

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Homophones! A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (to varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning. This lesson provides a full list of homophones in English for ESL students.

Homophones

Learn homophones list in tables.

Homophones | Table 1

Word Homophone
accessary  accessory
ail ale
aisle I’ll, isle
allowed aloud
aren’t aunt
auger augur
aural oral
awe oar
aye eye, I
bait bate
bald bawled
band banned
bark barque
base bass
be bee
bean been
beer bier
berry bury
bight bite
bitten bittern
boar bore
bold bowled
born borne
boy buoy
braise brays
bread bred
but butt
buyer byre
cast caste
caught court
ceiling sealing
censer censor
cereal serial
check cheque
chord cord
clack claque
climb clime
coal kohl
coo coup
council counsel
creak creek
cue queue
currant current
dam damn
dear deer
desert dessert
dew due
discreet discrete
done dun
draft draught
earn urn
ewe yew, you
fah far
farther father
faun fawn
faze phase
fie phi
find fined
fizz phiz
flaw floor
flex flecks
floe flow
foaled fold
foreword forward
forth fourth
franc frank
friar fryer
gait gate
gallop galop
gays gaze
gild guild
giro gyro
gneiss nice
grate great
greys graze
groan grown
hail hale
hall haul
hart heart
hay hey
hear here
he’d heed
hew hue
higher hire
ho hoe
hoard horde
holey holy, wholly
idle idol
indict indite
jewel joule
knave nave
knew new
knit nit
knock nock
know no
laager lager
lade laid
lain lane
laps lapse
lase laze
lay ley
leach leech
leak leek
lessen lesson
liar lyre
licker liquor
lieu loo
lo low
loan lone
loop loupe
made maid
main mane
mall maul
mantel mantle
mark marque
marten martin
maw more
mean mien
medal meddle
meter metre
miner minor, mynah
missed mist
mode mowed
moose mousse
muscle mussel
nay neight
none nun
ode owed
one won
packs pax
pain pane
palate palette, pallet
paten patten, pattern
pawn porn
peace piece
peal peel
pedal peddle
pi pie
place plaice
pleas please
pole poll
practice practise
principal principle
quarts quartz
rain reign, rein
rap wrap
read reed, red
reek wreak
retch wretch
rheum room
ring wring
roe row
roo roux, rue
root route
rota rotor
rough ruff
rung wrung
saver savour
sale sail
satire satyr
saw soar, sore
scull skull
seam seem
seas sees, seize
shake sheikh
shoe shoo
side sighed
sink synch
sloe slow
some sum
sort sought
staid stayed
stake steak
stationary stationery
stile style
straight strait
swat swot
tale tail
tare tear
te tea, tee
tear tier
terce terse
there their
throes throws
thyme time
tide tied
to too, two
told tolled
ton tun
tough tuff
tuba tuber
vale veil
wail wale
waist waste
waive wave
war wore
warn worn
watt what
way weigh, whey
weak week
weal we’ll
weather whether
weir we’re
wet whet
which witch
while wile
whirl whorl
whit wit
who’s whose
wood would
yoke yolk

Homophones | Table 2

Word Homophone
 ad  add
 air heir
 al awl
 arc ark
ate eight
auk orc
away aweigh
axel axle
bail bale
baize bays
ball bawl
bare bear
baron barren
bazaar bizarre
 beach beech
beat beet
bel bell
berth birth
billed build
blew blue
board bored
boos booze
bough bow
braid brayed
brake break
briadl bridle
buy by, bye
calendar calender
caster castor
cede seed
cell sell
cent scent, sent
cheap cheep
choir quire
cite site
clew clue
close cloze
complacent complaisant
cops copse
cousin cozen
crews cruise
curb kerb
cymbol symbol
days daze
descent dissent
deviser divisor
die dye
doe doh, dough
douse dowse
dual duel
eery eyrie
faint feint
fair fare
fate fête
fay fey
feat feet
file phial
fir fur
flair flare
flea flee
flew flu, flue
flour flower
for fore, four
fort fought
foul fowl
freeze frieze
furs furze
galipot gallipot
gamble gambol
genes jeans
gilt guilt
gnaw nor
gorilla guerilla
greave grieve
grisly grizzly
guessed guest
hair hare
hangar hanger
haw hoar, whore
heal heel, he’ll
heard herd
heroin heroine
hi high
him hymn
hoarse horde
hoarse horse
hour our
in inn
it’s its
key quay
knead need
knight night
knob nob
knot not
knows nose
lac lack
it’s its
lam lamb
larva lava
law lore
lea lee
lead led
lean lien
 levee levy
licence license
lie lye
links lynx
load lode
locks lox
loot lute
mail male
maize maze
manna manner
mare mayor
marshal martial
mask masque
me mi
meat meet, mete
metal mettle
might mite
mind mined
moat mote
moor more
morning mourning
naval navel
nigh nye
od odd
oh owe
packed pact
pail pale
pair pare, pear
pascal paschal
pause paws, pores, pours
pea pee
peak peek, peke, pique
pearl purl
peer pier
pica pika
plain plane
plum plumb
poof pouffe
praise prays, preys
profit prophet
quean queen
raise rays, raze
raw roar
real reel
rest wrest
review revue
right rite, wright, write
road rode
role roll
rood rude
rose rows
rote wrote
rouse rows
rye wry
spade spayed
sane seine
sauce source
scene seen
sea see
sear seer, sere
sew so, sow
shear sheer
sic sick
sign sine
slay sleigh
sole soul
son sun
spa spar
stair stare
stalk stork
steal steel
storey story
sweet suite
tacks tax
talk torque
taught taut, tort
team teem
teas tease
tern turn
threw through
throne thrown
tic tick
tire tyre
toad towed
tole toll
tor tore
troop troupe
vain vane
vial vile
wain wane
wait weight
wall waul
ware wear, where
wart wort
wax whacks
we wee, whee
we’d weed
wean ween
weaver weever
were whirr
wheald wheeled
whig wig
whine wine
whirled world
white wight
woe whoa
yaw yore, your, you’re
you’ll yule

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Meg

Saturday 8th of January 2022

Hi, wondering about 'independents' versus 'independence' . Would these two words be homophone words? Or something else?

Naayla

Wednesday 3rd of March 2021

Hi

Melissa

Tuesday 20th of October 2020

I had a homework of homophones that was more than 100 homophones and I just searched for homophones and this popped up and I putted in my note book and the next day when we were checking the homework i got all of them right and i was surpised i really recomend these homophones.

Rohan Kumar

Monday 17th of August 2020

Piece

Sebella

Thursday 13th of August 2020

See and sea