List 25 - Homonyms

A homonym is a word that looks alike or sounds the same as another word but is different in meaning . Because of this, it’s important to be attentive to a word being used as a homonym may mistakenly be used in its place.

Homonym Pairs		Homonym Pairs �
air	heir	loan	lone
ail	ale	made	maid
allowed	aloud	mail	male
arc	ark	main	mane
ate	eight	meat	meet
bad	bade	medal	meddle
bail	bale	missed	mist
bald	bawled	muscle	mussel
ball	bawl	none	nun
bare	bear	oar	ore
beach	beech	one	won
bean	been	pail	pale
bear	bare	pain	pane
beat	beet	pair	pear
bee	be	patience	patients
beet	beat	peace	piece
bell	belle	peal	peel
berry	bury	plain	plane
birth	berth	plane	plain
blue	blew	pore	pour
boar	bore	practice	practice
board	bored	praise	prays
bough	bow	pray	prey
bow	bough	principal	principle
boy	buoy	profit	prophet
brake	break	rain	reign
buy	by/bye	rap	wrap
ceiling	sealing	read	reed
cell	sell	read	red
cent	sent	right	write
cheap	cheep	ring	wring
check	cheque	road	rode
coarse	course	role	roll
cord	chord	root	route
dear	deer	rose	rows
die	dye	sale	sail
dun	done	scene	seen
Dye	die	sea	see
ewe	you	seam	seem
eye	I	sew	sow
fair	fare	sight	site
feat	feet	soar	sore
find	fined	sole	soul
flea	flee	son	sun
flew	flu	soot	suit
flour	flower	stair	stare
flower	flour	stake	steak
fool	full	steal	steel
fore	four	stile	style
forth	fourth	suite	sweet
foul	fowl	tail	tale
fur	fir	tear	tier
gait	gate	their	there
grate	great	threw	through
groan	grown	throne	thrown
hair	hare	tide	tied
hall	haul	to	two
heal	heel	told	tolled
hear	here	too	to, two
heard	herd	towed	toad
here	hear	urn	earn
higher	hire	vain	vein
him	hymn	vale	veil
hole	whole	vein	vane, vain
hour	our	waist	waste
idle	idol	wait	weight
key	quay	way	weigh
knew	new	weak	week
knight	night	wear	where
knot	not	whole	hole
know	no	witch	which
lain	lane	wood	would
lead	led	write	right
leak	leek	yoke	yolk
lessen	lesson	yore	your