Homophones – Why English Is Hard!
Index / Word1 / Word2 / Word3 / Example1 / Example2 / Example 3 /1 / air / heir / What we breathe / a person who inherits
2 / ail / ale / to be sick / a drink (Beer)
3 / aisle / isle / I’ll / walk way / Island / I will
4 / aloud / allowed / make a sound / to permit
5 / altar / alter / a place to worship / to change
6 / ate / eight / to eat / Number 8
7 / aunt / ant / Aunt / Uncle / A bug
8 / ball / bawl / throw a ball / cry
9 / bare / bear / uncovered / animal
10 / be / bee / B / Where could it be? / A bug / a bug
11 / beat / beet / to hit or Win / A food
12 / berry / bury / a fruit / To cover
13 / bin / been / a storage jar / how have you been
14 / birth / berth / To be born / a place for a ship
15 / blue / blew / a color / past of blow
16 / board / bored / a piece of wood / very tired - not interested
17 / break / brake / does not work or REST / used to stop
18 / bye / buy / by / good bye / buy it at the store / near
19 / cellar / seller / bottom of a house / sells something
20 / cell / sell / a small space / Biology / sell (not buy)
21 / cent / sent / scent / a small coin / To go / A smell
22 / cereal / serial / a food / In order
23 / chews / choose / To eat / to pick or select
24 / creek / creak / a small river / a noise
25 / course / coarse / a direction or class / not soft – rough
26 / cue / que / Q / word –signal or pool stick / A line / Q
27 / dam / damn / holds back water / eternal punishment-damned
28 / dear / deer / greatly loved / An animal
29 / die / dye / no life / To color
30 / do / dew / what do you do? / wet ground in morning/night
31 / doe / dough / a female deer / uncooked bread
32 / earn / urn / to earn money / a special container
33 / ewe / you / a female sheep / a person
34 / eye / I / you see with an eye / I / me / person / (OLD-Yes)
35 / fair / fare / Right or Carnival / a charge / fee
36 / flea / flee / a small bug / To run away
37 / flew / flu / to FLY (past) / sick
38 / flower / flour / a plant / Used for cooking
39 / for / four / verb / Number 4
40 / fowl / foul / a bird / Not good
41 / fur / fir / on an animal / A kind of tree
42 / gene / jean / part of your DNA / Blue Jeans - pants
43 / groan / grown / to make a sound / to get bigger
44 / guest / guessed / a visitor / to think
45 / hall / haul / a room / to carry a large load
46 / hair / hare / on your head / a rabbit
47 / hail / hale / Ice or Call / (come from) OLD
48 / hear / here / with your ear / a place
49 / heard / herd / to hear something / a large number of animals
50 / heal / heel / bottom of foot / to follow closely
51 / hi / high / a greeting / not low
52 / higher / hire / to go up / to work
53 / him / hymn / him/he / a church song
54 / hole / whole / a hole in the ground / the entire thing
55 / hour / our / Time / belongs to us
56 / I / eye / aye / I / me / person / you see with / (OLD-Yes)
57 / I’ll / aisle / Isle / I will / Walk away / island
58 / kernel / colonel / A piece of corn / an officer in the military
59 / knew / new / past of know / not old
60 / lead / led / a metal (Pb) / past of lead
61 / lessen / lesson / a smaller amount / to learn something
62 / least / leased / smallest / not owned
63 / lane / lain / a street / past of lay
64 / loan / lone / give money / a single item
65 / made / maid / past of make / a person who cleans
66 / mail / male / to send a letter / a boy / man
67 / mast / massed / Part of a sailboat / gathered (A mass)
68 / meat / meet / something to eat / to come together
69 / medal / meddle / An award / To interfere
70 / minor / miner / small/Under 18 years old / a worker underground
71 / new / knew / Not OLD / past of Know
72 / no / know / Not YES / to believe and understand
73 / not / knot / I will not go / tie a knot
74 / need / kneed / to want something / mix bread
75 / one / won / number 1 / past of win
76 / our / hour / belongs to us / time
77 / pact / packed / An agreement / ready for a trip
78 / pain / pane / to hurt / a piece of glass
79 / pail / pale / a bucket / little or no color/ washed out
80 / paws / pause / part of an animal / to wait
81 / Peace / piece / not war / A part of
82 / pear / pair / pare / a fruit / Two- pair of Shoes / To cut
83 / pedal / peddle / To sell / On a bike
84 / peer / pier / to look / a place to tie up a boat
85 / plain / plane / simple / fly in a plane
86 / pole / poll / a stick / to ask a question
87 / praise / prays / to say nice things / pray often
88 / prey / pray / something to hunt / talk to God
89 / rain / reign / rein / water from sky / a king reigns / for a horse
90 / rap / rap / to tap / to cover in paper
91 / read / red / I read a book. / A color / a color
92 / read / reed / Read a book / a hollow plant
93 / right / write / rite / not left / OK / write a letter / custom
94 / road / rode / a street / past tense of ride
95 / roll / role / bread / round tube / a part (in a play)
96 / rose / rows / a flower / in order
97 / rote / wrote / do over and over / past tense of write
98 / rye / wry / a kind of bread / strange abnormal twist
99 / sail / sale / on a boat / Good price
100 / sent / scent / cent / to go / A smell / A small coin
101 / see / sea / look / Ocean / Letter
102 / seller / cellar / sells something / bottom of a house
103 / scene / seen / part of a drama / past of see
104 / seam / seem / edge of cloth / to be like something
105 / shone / shown / to make bright / past of show
106 / side / sighed / an edge / a sound
107 / sight / site / to see / a place
108 / so / sew / sow / a statement / with needle / plant seeds
109 / some / sum / give me some / add up the sum +
110 / son / sun / a male child / In the sky
111 / sore / soar / hurts / To fly
112 / stair / stare / to climb up / To look at
113 / steel / steal / a strong metal / To take
114 / steak / stake / a food / A piece of wood
115 / suede / swayed / A kind of fabric / to bend or change direction
116 / sweet / suite / takes good / a large room
117 / sure / shore / to know / where water and land touch
118 / surf / serf / a wave (Internet) / a farm worker
119 / tale / tail / a story / Part of an animal
120 / tact / tacked / wise / diplomatic / to ‘nail’ up
121 / tea / tee / T / a drink / holds a golf ball / Letter
122 / threw / through / Past of THROW / to move into / or over
123 / there / their / They’re / belongs to them / They are
124 / too / two / to / Also / Number 2 / Go to
125 / toe / tow / part of your foot / to pull something
126 / vain / vane / vein / proud of looks / shows wind blowing / carries blood
127 / vail / vale / cover (Wedding) / a valley
128 / waist / waste / a part of your body / something that is no good
129 / wade / weighed / To walk in water / past of weigh
130 / wait / weight / to delay / measure
131 / waist / waste / part of your body / To not use well / to not use well
132 / way / whey / weigh / a direction / a part of sour milk / amount
133 / weak / week / not strong / 7 days in a week
134 / wear / where / something you have on / a place to go
135 / weather / whether / Condition outside / a choice
136 / whole / hole / the entire thing / a hole in the ground
137 / witch / which / a bad person / to pick. Which one?
138 / won / one / Past of win / number 1
139 / wood / would / a piece of lumber / Question.
140 / Y / why / letter / Question. Why did you go?
141 / you’ll / Yule / you will / Christmas time
142 / you’re / your / you are / Belongs to. This is your hat
143 / ewe / you / a female sheep
Homophones: Rev: June 2014
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