List of Common Homophones in English! Homophones are words that sound the same as another word but have a different meaning, and often a different spelling.
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Common Homophones List
Here is the list of more than 120 common homophones in English:
- accede — exceed
- accept — except
- addition — edition
- adds — adz — ads
- affect — effect
- ale — ail
- all ready — already
- ayes — eyes
- baa — bah
- bail — bale
- bass — base
- baste — based
- bate — bait
- bated — baited
- dense — dents
- descent — dissent
- dun — done
- dye — die
- dyeing — dying
- fare — fair
- fate — fete
- faun — fawn
- fax — facts
- flour — flower
- flow — floe
- flower — flour
- flu — flue — flew
- flyer — flier
- foaled — fold
- fort — forte
- graft — graphed
- graham — gram
- graphed — graft
- greece — grease
- grill — grille
- grisly — grizzly
- groan — grown
- guerilla — gorilla
- guessed — guest
- guild — gild
- guilder — gilder
- guilt — gilt
- gym — Jim
- hail — hale
- hair — hare
- hall — haul
- halve — have
- handmade — handmaid
- handsome — hansom
- hangar — hanger
- hay — hey
- hays — haze
- he’d — heed
- he’ll — heal — heel
- hear — here
- heard — herd
- heart — hart
- heroin — heroine
- hertz — hurts
- hew — hue
- hey — hay
- hi — high
- higher — hire
- him — hymn
- hire — higher
- ho — hoe
- hoard — horde
- hoarse — horse
- hoe — ho
- hoes — hose
- hole — whole
- holed — hold
- hour — our
- hue — hugh — hew
- humerus — humorous
- hurts — hertz
- hymn — him
- I — eye
- I’ll — aisle — isle
- idle — idol — idyll
- illicit — elicit
- illusion — allusion
- illusive — allusive — elusive
- incite — insight
- innocence — innocents
- jam — jamb
- jean — gene
- jell — gel
- jibe — gibe
- carat — carrot
- kernel — colonel
- knap — nap
- knave — nave
- kneed — need
- lacks — lax
- ladder — latter
- lade — laid
- lain — lane
- lays — laze — leis
- lea — lee
- leach — leech
- lead — led
- leak — leek
- lean — lien
- leased — least
- one — won
- owe — oh
- padded — patted
- reed — read
- reek — wreak
- reel — real
- soled — sold
- some — sum
- son — sun
- tied — tide
- tier — tear
- veil — vale
- vice — vise
- vile — vial
- wader — waiter
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