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Homophones list, A–Z

177 sets of words that sound alike but mean different things, with meanings and examples. Tap any set to see the difference.

A B C D F G H I K L M N O P R S T V W Y

A

air vs. heir
Easy air vs. heir vs. ere vs. e'er
Hard aisle vs. isle vs. i'll
Medium allowed vs. aloud
Easy altar vs. alter
Easy ate vs. eight
Easy

B

band vs. banned
Easy bare vs. bear
Easy bark vs. barque
Medium be vs. bee
Easy beach vs. beech
Easy beat vs. beet
Easy berth vs. birth
Easy bier vs. beer
Easy blue vs. blew
Easy board vs. bored
Medium borough vs. burrow vs. burro
Medium bread vs. bred
Easy break vs. brake
Easy bridal vs. bridle
Easy bury vs. berry
Easy buy vs. by vs. bye vs. bi
Hard

C

carat vs. caret vs. carrot vs. karat
Hard ceiling vs. sealing
Easy cell vs. sell
Easy cellar vs. seller
Easy cereal vs. serial
Easy cheap vs. cheep
Easy chews vs. choose
Easy chile vs. chili vs. chilly
Medium chord vs. cord vs. cored
Medium claws vs. clause
Easy coarse vs. course
Easy colonel vs. kernel
Easy council vs. counsel
Easy creak vs. creek
Easy crews vs. cruise
Easy

D

days vs. daze
Easy dear vs. deer
Easy dew vs. due
Easy die vs. dye
Easy doe vs. dough
Easy dual vs. duel
Easy

F

fair vs. fare
Easy feat vs. feet
Easy find vs. fined
Easy fir vs. fur
Easy flea vs. flee
Easy flew vs. flu vs. flue
Medium flour vs. flower
Easy for vs. four vs. fore
Medium forth vs. fourth
Easy foul vs. fowl
Easy

G

gait vs. gate
Easy gene vs. jean
Easy grate vs. great
Easy grisly vs. grizzly
Easy groan vs. grown
Easy guest vs. guessed
Easy

H

hair vs. hare
Easy hall vs. haul
Easy heal vs. heel vs. he'll
Medium hear vs. here
Easy heard vs. herd
Easy higher vs. hire
Easy him vs. hymn
Easy hoard vs. horde
Easy hoarse vs. horse
Easy hole vs. whole
Easy hour vs. our
Easy

I

idle vs. idol
Easy in vs. inn
Easy

K

key vs. quay
Easy knead vs. need
Easy knew vs. new vs. gnu
Medium knot vs. not
Easy knows vs. nose
Easy

L

leak vs. leek
Easy lessen vs. lesson
Easy links vs. lynx
Easy loan vs. lone
Easy

M

made vs. maid
Easy maize vs. maze
Easy male vs. mail
Easy mane vs. main
Easy manor vs. manner
Easy medal vs. meddle
Easy meet vs. meat vs. mete
Hard missed vs. mist
Easy moan vs. mown
Easy moose vs. mousse
Easy morning vs. mourning
Easy muscle vs. mussel
Easy

N

naval vs. navel
Easy nay vs. neigh
Easy night vs. knight
Easy none vs. nun
Easy

O

oar vs. or vs. ore
Medium one vs. won
Easy

P

pail vs. pale
Easy pain vs. pane
Easy pair vs. pear vs. pare
Medium patience vs. patients
Easy pause vs. paws
Easy peak vs. peek vs. pique
Medium peal vs. peel
Easy piece vs. peace
Easy plain vs. plane
Medium plum vs. plumb
Easy pole vs. poll
Medium pray vs. prey
Easy presence vs. presents
Easy principal vs. principle
Easy profit vs. prophet
Easy

R

rain vs. reign vs. rein
Medium raise vs. rays vs. raze
Medium rap vs. wrap
Easy real vs. reel
Easy right vs. write vs. rite vs. wright
Hard ring vs. wring
Medium road vs. rode vs. rowed
Medium role vs. roll
Easy rose vs. rows
Medium

S

T

tail vs. tale
Easy taught vs. taut
Easy tea vs. tee
Easy team vs. teem
Easy tear vs. tier vs. tare
Medium their vs. there vs. they're
Medium threw vs. through
Easy throne vs. thrown
Easy tide vs. tied
Easy time vs. thyme
Easy to vs. too vs. two
Medium toad vs. towed vs. toed
Medium toe vs. tow
Easy troop vs. troupe
Easy

V

vain vs. vein vs. vane
Medium vary vs. very
Easy vial vs. vile
Easy

W

wail vs. whale
Easy wait vs. weight
Easy war vs. wore
Easy waste vs. waist
Easy way vs. weigh vs. whey
Hard we vs. wee
Easy weak vs. week
Easy wear vs. ware vs. where
Medium weather vs. whether
Easy which vs. witch
Easy whose vs. who's
Easy wine vs. whine
Easy wood vs. would
Easy

Y

yoke vs. yolk
Easy you vs. ewe vs. yew
Medium your vs. you're vs. yore
Medium

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