Homophones
Homophones
Homophones
A homophone is one of two or more words which sound the same but which
have different meanings.
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knead/need knight/night knit/nit
knot/not laps/lapse lays/laze
lead/led leak/leek lessen/lesson
lightening/lightning loan/lone made/maid
mail/male maize/maze manner/manor
meat/meet medal/meddle mind/mined
miner/minor missed/mist moose/mousse
morning/mourning muscles/mussels no/know
nose/knows none/nun ode/owed
one/won overdo/overdue paced/paste
pain/pane pair/pare/pear passed/past
pause/paws peace/piece peak/peek
place/plaice plain/plane pleas/please
plum/plumb poor/pore/pour pray/prey
profit/prophet queue/cue rain/reign
rap/wrap read/reed red/read
real/reel right/write role/roll
root/route sail/sale scene/seen
sea/see sew/so shoe/shoo
side/sighed size/sighs slay/sleigh
soar/sore sole/soul some/sum
stair/stare stake/steak steal/steel
storey/story suite/sweet swayed/suede
tea/tee tail/tale taught/taut
team/teem tease/teas/tees tern/turn
their/they’re/there threw/through throne/thrown
tied/tide to/too/two toed/toad/towed/told
undo/undue vale/veil vane/vain/vein
wade/weighed wail/whale waste/waist
wait/weight ware/wear/where way/whey/weigh
weather/whether weak/week which/witch
whine/wine whirred/word warn/worn
wood/would