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.
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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 |
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 |
Learn more with a useful homonyms list in English.
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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