Common Homophones: 120+ Most Important Homophones in English

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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