List of Homophones in English [Infographic]

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning.  A homophone may also differ in spelling.

Homophones that are spelled the same are also both homographs and homonyms.

A Homograph is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning

Homonyms, broadly defined, are words which sound alike or are spelled alike, but have different meanings

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List of Homophones A to D

ad	add
allowed	aloud
altar	alter
ate	eight
aye	eye
band	banned
be	bee
bean	been
beat	beet
billed	build
blew	blue
board	bored
but	butt
buy	by
cell	sell
cent	scent
cereal	serial
close	cloze
council	counsel
dear	deer
die	dye
duel	dual

List of Homophones E to K

fair	fare
flea	flee
flew	flu
flour	flower
foreword	forward
hear	here
heard	herd
heroin	heroine
hi	high
higher	hire
him	hymn
hoard	horde
hour	our
idle	idol
in	inn
knead	need
knew	new
knight	night
knit	nit
knot	not
know	no
knows	nose

List of Homophones L to R

leak	leek
lessen	lesson
links	lynx
meat	meet
missed	mist
morning	mourning
muscle	mussel
naval	navel
oh	owe
one	won
pair	pear
pea	pee
peace	piece
peak	peek
rain	reign
raise	rays
read	red
real	reel
role	roll
rose	rows
rote	wrote

List of Homophones S TO Z

scene	seen
sea	see
side	sighed
slay	sleigh
some	sum
son	sun
stair	stare
stake	steak
stalk	stork
sweet	suite
there	their
threw	through
throne	thrown
to	too
waist	waste
wait	weight
waive	wave
war	wore
way	weigh
weak	week
we’d	weed
weather	whether
which	witch
whine	wine
wood	would