HOMOPHONES
Homophones are words that are pronounced the same but have different meanings and are usually spelt differently as well. In other words, homophones are words with similar phonetic sounds but different spellings and meanings. Here is a list of the most common homophones.
Word(s) Homophone(s)
1. Air Heir
2. Ante Anti (British)
3. Buy By
4. Cent Scent
5. Cause Course
6. Dam Damn
7. Fair Fare
8. Die Dye
9. Heal Eel
10. Flour Flower
11. Hour Our
12. In Inn
13. Knot Not
14. Made Maid
15. One Won
16. Peace Piece
17. Principal Principle
18. Real Reel
19. Root Route
20. See Sea
21. Sew So, sow
22. Shore Sure
23. Some Sum
24. Stair Stare
25. Tail Tale
26. Waist Waste
27. Way Weigh
28. Wear Where
29. Aisle Isle
30. Bear Bare
31. Cell Sell
32. Complement Compliment
33. Dear Deer
34. Eye I
35. Hair Hare
36. Here Hear
37. Hole Whole
38. Knight Night
39. Know No
40. Mail Male
41. Plain Plane
42. Right Write
43. Sail Sale
44. Seam Seem
45. Sole Soul
46. Stationary Stationery
47. Sight Site
48. Son Sun
49. Their There
50. Toe Tow
51. Wait Weight
52. Week Weak
53. Pail Pale
54. Ad Add
55. Blew Blue
56. Hard No
57. Ate Had
58. Alter Altar
59. Ascent Assent
60. Berth Birth
61. Bail Bale
62. Beech Beach
63. Bolder Boulder
64. Bred Bread
65. Ceiling Sealing
66. Check Cheque
67. Council Cancel
68. Canvas Canvass
69. Grate Great
70. Hew Hue
71. Lessen Lesson
72. Knew New
EXERCISE 3
1. The wood was carved with an (all, awl)
2. Sacrifices were offered on the (alter, altar)
3. Edmond Hillary made his (assent, ascent) on Mount Everest first
4. I reserved four (births, berths) for my family.
5. She (abhors, harbors) snakes but adores alligators
6. The angry man (balled, bawled) at me
7. There was a (bolder, boulder) blocking the path
8. The cold war was between the Western and Eastern (blocks, blocs)
9. He went (bear, beer, bare) footed
10. The (ceiling, sealing) of the room must be high
11. The director made a (queue, cue) to start
12. It is a (canvass, canvas) shoe
13. He is weak because of his (decease, disease)
14. Smoke is let out through (flew, flue)
15. The landlord asked the gardener to (hue, hew) the branches
16. The garments are (lose, loose)
17. (Wring, Ring) the clothes after wash
18. He is the (air, heir) to the throne.
19. A set of leaves stitched together is (choir, quire)
20. We need some (vales, vials) in the laboratory.
21. The field has been (moan, mown)
22. He is a (bow, beau), ladies are fond of him
23. (Gorilla, Guerrilla) warfare is going on in Cambodia
24. The militants (reeked, wreaked) havoc in Borno state
25. The shop (wreaks, reeks) of spoilt oranges
26. The play was a (review, revue) of Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. The cast was flawless.
27. I hate traders who (hoard, horde).
28. The mason (napped, knapped) the flints masterfully.
29. It is another (phase, faze) in the development of commerce and industry in Nigeria.
30. That is the (levee, levy) of the river.
Find out the meanings of these pairs
1. Stile- style
2. Tear- tier
3. Kneed- knead
4. Peal- peel
5. Team- teem
6. Thyme- time
7. Tic- tick
8. Toad-towed
9. Vain- vein
10. Vice- vise
11. Wade- weighed
12. Nay- neigh
13. Ode- owed
14. Pain-pane
15. Palette- pallet
16. Whine- wine
17. Groan- grown
18. Pray- prey
19. Rack- wrack
20. Retch- wretch
21. Role- roll
22. Rose- rose
23. Rye- wry
24. Scull- skull
25. Shoe- shoo
26. Slay- sleigh
27. Straight- strait
28. Taught- taut
29. Tear- tier
30. Wail- whale
31. Wave- waive
32. We- wee
33. Which- witch
