Words that sound alike, but are spelled differently (usually different meanings).
Homophones are grouped, alphabetized with in group & among list (hopefully).
| ad / add | |
| ade / aid | |
| affect / effect | |
| ail / ale | |
| air / ere / err / heir | |
| aisle / I’ll / isle | |
| ait / ate / eight | |
| all / awl | |
| allowed / aloud | |
| ant / aunt | |
| ante / anti | |
| ar / are / r | |
| arc / ark | |
| ascent / assent | |
| ate / eight | |
| away / aweigh | |
| aye / eye / I | |
| bail / bale | |
| bait / bate | |
| bald / bawled | |
| ball / bawl | |
| band / banned | |
| bare / bear | |
| base / bass | |
| b / be / bee | |
| beach / beech | |
| beat / beet | |
| beau / bough / bow | |
| been / bin | |
| beer / bier | |
| berth / birth | |
| bight / bite / byte | |
| billed / build | |
| blew / blue | |
| bloc / block | |
| boar / bore | |
| board / bored | |
| boarder / border | |
| bode / bowed | |
| bolder / boulder | |
| born / borne / bourn / bourne | |
| boy / buoy | |
| brake / break | |
| bread / bred | |
| bridal / bridle | |
| broach / brooch | |
| brouse / brows | |
| but / butt | |
| buy / by / bye | |
| by / bye / buy | |
| c / sea / see | |
| cache / cash | |
| capital / capitol | |
| caret / carrot / carat / karat | |
| cast / caste | |
| cay / key / quay | |
| cede / seed | |
| cee / sea / see | |
| cel / cell / sell | |
| cell / sell | |
| cellar / seller | |
| censer / censor / sensor | |
| census / senses | |
| cent / scent / sent | |
| cents / sense | |
| cereal / serial | |
| chased / chaste | |
| chews / choose | |
| chili / chilly | |
| choral / coral | |
| chorale / corral | |
| chute / shoot | |
| cite / sight / site | |
| clause / claws | |
| close / clothes | |
| clothes / close | |
| coarse / course | |
| cocks / cox | |
| colonel / kernel | |
| complement / compliment | |
| coo / coup | |
| core / corps | |
| creak / creek | |
| crews / cruise | |
| cue / queue | |
| cygnet / signet | |
| cymbal / symbol | |
| d / dee | |
| dam / damn | |
| days / daze | |
| dear / deer | |
| defused / diffused | |
| dew / do / due | |
| die / dye | |
| died / dyed | |
| disc / disk | |
| discreet / discrete | |
| discussed / disgust | |
| doe / dough | |
| doughs / doze | |
| draft / draught | |
| earn / erne / urn | |
| em / m | |
| ewe / u / yew / you | |
| eye / I | |
| facts / fax | |
| fain / feign | |
| fair / fare | |
| fairy / ferry | |
| fare / fair | |
| faze / phase | |
| feat / feet | |
| file / phial | |
| find / fined | |
| fir / fur | |
| flair / flare | |
| flea / flee | |
| flew / flu / flue | |
| flocks / phlox | |
| floe / flow | |
| flour / flower | |
| flower / flour | |
| for / fore / four | |
| foreword / forward | |
| forth / fourth | |
| foul / fowl | |
| frees / freeze / frieze | |
| friar / fryer | |
| g / gee | |
| gait / gate | |
| gene / jean | |
| gild / guild | |
| gneiss / nice | |
| gnu / knew / new / nu | |
| gored / gourd | |
| gorilla / guerrilla | |
| grate / great | |
| grays / graze | |
| grisly / grizzly | |
| groan / grown | |
| guessed / guest | |
| guide / guyed | |
| gym / Jim | |
| hail / hale | |
| hair / hare | |
| hairy / Harry | |
| hall / haul | |
| halve / have | |
| hart / heart | |
| hay / hey | |
| he'd / heed | |
| heal / heel / he'll | |
| hear / here | |
| heard / herd | |
| heroin / heroine | |
| hew / hue | |
| hi / high | |
| higher / hire | |
| him / hymm / hymn | |
| hoar / whore | |
| hoard / horde | |
| hoarse / horse | |
| hoes / hose | |
| hold / holed | |
| hole / whole | |
| holey / holy / wholly | |
| hour / our | |
| idle / idol / idyl / idyll | |
| ileum / ilium | |
| in / inn | |
| incite / insight | |
| its / it's / it’s | |
| jam / jamb | |
| jeans / genes | |
| jewel / joule | |
| knap / nap | |
| knead / kneed / need | |
| knight / night | |
| knit / nit | |
| knot / naught / not | |
| know / no | |
| knows / nose / noes / no's | |
| lay / lei | |
| lays / laze / leas / leis | |
| leach / leech | |
| lead / led / lede | |
| leak / leek | |
| lean / lien | |
| leased / least | |
| lends / lens | |
| lessen / lesson | |
| liable / libel | |
| liar / lyre | |
| lie / lye | |
| links / lynx | |
| load / lode / lowed | |
| loan / lone | |
| lochs / locks / lox | |
| loot / lute | |
| made / maid | |
| mail / male | |
| main / mane | |
| maize / maze | |
| mall / maul | |
| manner / manor | |
| marshal / marshall / martial | |
| massed / mast | |
| mean / mien | |
| meat / meet / mete | |
| medal / meddle | |
| might / mite | |
| mince / mints | |
| mind / mined | |
| miner / minor | |
| missed / mist | |
| moan / mown | |
| moat / mote | |
| mode / mowed | |
| moo / moue | |
| mooed / mood | |
| moor / more | |
| moose / mousse | |
| morning / mourning | |
| muscle / mussel | |
| mussed / must | |
| mustard / mustered | |
| navel / naval | |
| nay / nee / neigh | |
| nays / neighs | |
| none / nun | |
| o / oh / owe | |
| oar / or / ore | |
| one / won | |
| overdo / overdue | |
| p / pea / pee | |
| paced / paste | |
| pail / pale | |
| pain / pane | |
| pair / pare / pear | |
| palate / palette | |
| pall / pawl | |
| passed / past | |
| patience / patients | |
| pause / paws | |
| peace / piece | |
| peak / peek / pique | |
| peal / peel | |
| pearl / perl | |
| pedal / peddle | |
| peer / pier | |
| pi / pie | |
| picks / pyx | |
| pidgin / pigeon | |
| pistil / pistol | |
| plain / plane | |
| plane / plain | |
| pleas / please | |
| plum / plumb | |
| pole / poll | |
| poor / pore / pour | |
| praise / prays | |
| praise / prays / preys | |
| pray / prey | |
| presence / presents | |
| pride / pryed | |
| prince / prints | |
| principal / principle | |
| profit / prophet | |
| pros / prose | |
| psalter / salter | |
| psi / si / sigh | |
| q / queue | |
| quarts / quartz | |
| quean / queen | |
| quince / quints | |
| rack / wrack | |
| racket / racquet | |
| rain / reign / rein | |
| raise / rays / raze | |
| rap / wrap | |
| rapt / wrapped | |
| read / red | |
| read / reed | |
| real / reel | |
| recede / reseed | |
| reek / wreak | |
| rest / wrest | |
| retch / wretch | |
| review / revue | |
| rho / roe / row | |
| rhyme / rime | |
| right / rite / wright / write | |
| ring / wring | |
| road / rode / rowed | |
| roam / Rome | |
| role / roll | |
| root / route | |
| rose / rows | |
| rote / wrote | |
| rough / ruff | |
| rout / route | |
| roux / rue | |
| rye / wry | |
| sachet / sashay | |
| sacks / sax | |
| sail / sale | |
| sawed / sod | |
| scene / seen | |
| seam / seem | |
| seamen / semen | |
| sear / seer | |
| seas / sees / seize | |
| serf / surf | |
| serge / surge | |
| sew / so / sow | |
| shake / sheik | |
| shear / sheer | |
| shoe / shoo | |
| shore / sure | |
| sic / sick | |
| side / sighed | |
| sighs / size | |
| sign / sine | |
| slay / sleigh | |
| sleight / slight | |
| slew / slue | |
| sloe / slow | |
| soar / sore | |
| soared / sword | |
| sole / soul | |
| some / sum | |
| son / sun | |
| sonny / sunny | |
| soot / suit | |
| spade / spayed | |
| staid / stayed | |
| stair / stare | |
| stake / steak | |
| stationary / stationery | |
| steal / steel | |
| straight / strait | |
| suede / swayed | |
| suite / sweet | |
| summary / summery | |
| sundae / Sunday | |
| t / tea / tee | |
| tacks / tax | |
| tail / tale | |
| tare / tear | |
| taught / taut | |
| taut / taught | |
| team / teem | |
| tear / tier | |
| teas / tease / tees | |
| tease / tees | |
| tense / tents | |
| tern / turn | |
| their / there / they're / they’re | |
| threw / through | |
| throne / thrown | |
| thyme / time | |
| tic / tick | |
| tide / tied | |
| tighten / titan | |
| to / too / two | |
| toad / toed / towed | |
| toe / tow | |
| told / tolled | |
| toon / tune | |
| tough / tuff | |
| tracked / tract | |
| troop / troupe | |
| trussed / trust | |
| urn / earn | |
| use / ewes | |
| vail / vale / veil | |
| vain / vane / vein | |
| vary / very | |
| verses / versus | |
| vial / vile | |
| vice / vise | |
| wade / weighed | |
| wail / whale | |
| waist / waste | |
| wait / weight | |
| waive / wave | |
| walk / wok | |
| want / wont | |
| war / wore | |
| ware / wear / where | |
| warn / worn | |
| wax / whacks | |
| way / weigh / whey | |
| we / wee | |
| we'd / weed | |
| we'll / wheel | |
| we're / were | |
| we've / weave | |
| weak / week | |
| weather / whether | |
| weir / we’re | |
| weld / welled | |
| wen / when | |
| we’d / weed | |
| which / witch | |
| whine / wine | |
| whirled / world | |
| whirred / word | |
| who's / whose | |
| whoa / woe | |
| why / wye / y | |
| wind / wined | |
| wood / would | |
| worst / wurst | |
| yoke / yolk | |
| yore / your / you’re | |
| you'll / yule | |
| your / you're / yore | |
| Sioux / sue | |
| Wales / whales |