Thursday, 6 February 2014

Homophones

Homophones are words of the same language that are pronounced alike even if they differ in spelling, meaning, or origin, such as "pair" and "pear". Homophones may also be spelled alike, as in "bear" (the animal) and "bear" (to carry).
Homophones Word List
ad/add            in/inn             sail/sale
aloud/allowed           its/it’s             sea/see
alter/altar        knew/new     seam/seem
ate/eight         knight/night               sew/so/sow
beat/beet        knot/not         some/sum
blue/blew       know/no         son/sun
break/brake               lead/led         stair/stare
buy/by/bye                 made/maid                tale/tail
cell/sell           meat/meet                  tea/tee
cent/scent/sent         one/won        there/they’re/their
deer/dear       or/ore/oar                  to, too, two
flour/flower                pale/pail                    toe/tow
flu/flew                       pare/pair                   wail/whale
for/four                       plane/plain               waist/waste
great/grate                 prince/prints             wait/weight
groan/grown             rain/reign/rein                      weak/week
hair/hare                    read/red                     weather/whether
hall/haul                    read/reed                   we’ll/wheel
hear/here                   right/write                   which/witch
heard/herd                rode/rowed/road                  who’s/whose
hour/our                     rose/rows                   your/you’re

*Please note that this is only a small collection of homophones. There are many more! Try this link:
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/homophones/middle-school/homophones-flea-flee/

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