Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings/Homophones
Homophones
[edit]Many words (spelled correctly) are confused with another word which sounds the same or is spelled similarly. These are known as homophones. This list does not include place names, such as Gaul (gall) or Greece (grease).
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- accept and except
- acclamation and acclimation
- acts and ax/axe
- adds and adz/adze
- adherence and adherents
- adolescence and adolescents
- aeration and erration
- aerie and airy
- affect and effect
- aid and aide
- ail and ale
- air, ere, and heir
- aisle, I'll and isle
- all and awl
- allowed and aloud
- allude and elude
- altar and alter
- appose and oppose
- arc and ark
- are and our
- ascent and assent
- ate and eight
- away and aweigh
- aye, eye and I
- bade and bayed
- bail and bale
- bait and bate
- bald, balled and bawled
- ball and bawl
- band and banned
- bard and barred
- bare and bear
- baron and barren
- base and bass
- based and baste
- bazaar and bizarre
- be and bee
- beach and beech
- bean and been
- beat and beet
- been and bin
- beer and bier
- bell and belle
- berry and bury
- berth and birth
- better and bettor
- bight and bite
- billed and build
- bird and burred
- blew and blue
- boar, boor and bore
- board and bored
- boarder and border
- bode and bowed
- bold and bowled
- bolder and boulder/bowlder
- bole and bowl
- boos and booze
- bough and bow
- boy and buoy
- braid and brayed
- braise/braize, brays and braze
- brake and break
- breach and breech
- bread and bred
- brewed and brood
- brews and bruise
- bridal and bridle
- burro and burrow
- bus and buss
- bused and bust
- but and butt
- buy, by and bye
- cache and cash
- callous and callus
- can't and cant
- cannon and canon
- canter and cantor
- carat, caret and carrot
- caries and carries
- cast and caste
- cede and seed
- cell and sell
- cellar and seller
- censor and sensor
- cent, scent and sent
- cents, scents and sense
- cereal and serial
- cession and session
- chaise and chase
- chalk and chock
- chance and chants
- chased and chaste
- cheap and cheep
- chews and choose
- chic and sheik
- choir and quire
- chord, cord and cored
- chute and shoot
- cite, sight and site
- clause and claws
- click and clique
- close and clothes
- coal and cole
- coaled and cold
- coarse and course
- coated and coded
- cocks and cox
- complement and compliment
- contingence and contingents
- coo and coup
- coop and coupe
- correspondence and correspondents
- cosign and cosine
- council and counsel
- councilor and counselor
- creak and creek
- crewed and crude
- crews and cruise
- cue and queue
- currant and current
- curser and cursor
- dam and damn
- Dane and deign
- days and daze
- dear and deer
- dense and dents
- dependence and dependents
- dew, do and due
- die and dye
- dire and dyer
- discreet and discrete
- doe and dough
- does, doughs and doze
- done and dun
- dual and duel
- ducked and duct
- earn and urn
- either and ether
- emigrant and immigrant
- ensure and insure
- eutopia and utopia
- ewe, yew and you
- eyed and I'd
- fain and feign
- faint and feint
- fair and fare
- fairy and ferry
- fate and fete
- faze and phase
- feat and feet
- feudal and futile
- find and fined
- finish and Finnish
- fir and fur
- flair and flare
- flea and flee
- flecks and flex
- flew and flue
- flour and flower
- foaled and fold
- for, fore and four
- forego and forgo
- foreword and forward
- forth and fourth
- foul and fowl
- frees, freeze and frieze
- friar and fryer
- gage and gauge
- gait and gate
- gel and jell
- gene and jean
- gild and guild
- gneiss and nice
- gored and gourd
- grade and grayed/greyed
- grate and great
- grays/greys and graze
- grisly and grizzly
- groan and grown
- guessed and guest
- guide and guyed
- guise and guys
- hail and hale
- hair and hare
- hairy and harry
- hall and haul
- halve and have
- hangar and hanger
- hay and hey
- hays and haze
- he'd and heed
- he'll, heal and heel
- hear and here
- heard and herd
- heated and heeded
- hew and hue
- hi and high
- higher and hire
- him and hymn
- ho and hoe
- hoar and whore
- hoard and horde
- hoarse and horse
- hoes and hose
- hold and holed
- hole and whole
- holey, holy and wholly
- hostel and hostile
- hour and our
- idle and idol
- immanent and imminent
- in and inn
- incidence and incidents
- incite and insight
- instance and instants
- intense and intents
- intension and intention
- it's and its
- jam and jamb
- knave and nave
- knead, kneed and need
- knew and new
- knight and night
- knit and nit
- knot, naught and not
- know and no
- knows and nose
- lacks and lax
- lade and laid
- lain and lane
- lair and layer
- lam and lamb
- laps and lapse
- lay and lei
- lays and laze
- leach and leech
- lead and led
- leak and leek
- lean and lien
- leant and lent
- leased and least
- lends and lens
- lessen and lesson
- lesser and lessor
- let's and lets
- levee and levy
- liar and lyre
- lichen and liken
- lickerish and licorice
- lie and lye
- links and lynx
- lo and low
- load and lode
- loan and lone
- loch and lock
- locks and lox
- loop and loupe
- loos and lose
- lose and loose
- made and maid
- mail and male
- main and mane
- maize, Mays and maze
- mall and maul
- manner and manor
- marshal and martial
- massed and mast
- mat and matte
- mean and mien
- meat, meet and mete
- medal, meddle, metal and mettle
- might and mite
- mince and mints
- mind and mined
- miner and minor
- missed and mist
- moat and mote
- mood and mooed
- moor and more
- morning and mourning
- muscle and mussel
- mussed and must
- naval and navel
- nay and neigh
- nicks and nix
- none and nun
- oar, or and ore
- ode and owed
- oh and owe
- once and wants
- one and won
- oohs and ooze
- overseas and oversees
- paced and paste
- packed and pact
- pail and pale
- pain and pane
- pair, pare and pear
- palate, palette and pallet
- parish and perish
- passed and past
- patience and patients
- pause and paws
- peace and piece
- peak, peek and pique
- peal and peel
- pearl and purl
- pedal, peddle and petal
- peer and pier
- penance and pennants
- per and purr
- pi and pie
- plain and plane
- plainer, planar and planer
- plait and plate
- pleas and please
- pole and poll
- poor, pore and pour
- populace and populous
- praise, prays and preys
- pray and prey
- precedence and precedents
- premier and premiere
- presence and presents
- pride and pried
- prier and prior
- pries and prize
- prince and prints
- principal and principle
- profit and prophet
- rack and wrack
- raid and rayed
- rail and rale
- rain, reign and rein
- raise, rays and raze
- rap and wrap
- rapt and wrapped/wrapt
- re-cover and recover
- re-lay and relay
- read and red
- read and reed
- real, reel, and riel
- recede and reseed
- reek and wreak
- residence and residents
- rest and wrest
- retch and wretch
- rhyme and rime
- right, rite, wright and write
- ring and wring
- ringer and wringer
- rise and ryes
- road, rode and rowed
- roe and row
- roil and royal
- role and roll
- roomer and rumor/rumour
- root and route
- rose and rows
- rote and wrote
- rude and rued
- rues and ruse
- rung and wrung
- rye and wry
- sail and sale
- scene and seen
- sea and see
- seam and seem
- sear and seer
- seas, sees and seize
- sects and sex
- sew, so and sow
- shake and sheik
- shear and sheer
- shoe and shoo
- sic and sick
- sics and six
- side and sighed
- sighs and size
- sign and sine
- slay and sleigh
- sleight and slight
- slew and slough
- soar and sore
- soared and sword
- sold and soled
- sole and soul
- some and sum
- son and sun
- stair and stare
- stake and steak
- stationary and stationery
- steal and steel
- step and steppe
- storey and story
- straight and strait
- suite and sweet
- summary and summery
- tacked and tact
- tacks and tax
- tail and tale
- taper and tapir
- tarry and terry
- taught and taut
- tea and tee
- team and teem
- tears and tiers
- teas, tease and tees
- tense and tents
- than and then
- there, their, and they're
- threw and through
- throne and thrown
- thyme and time
- tide and tied
- tier and tire
- tighten and titan
- to, too, and two
- toad, toed and towed
- toe and tow
- told and tolled
- tracked and tract
- tray and trey
- udder and utter
- vain, vane and vein
- vale and veil
- vial and vile
- vice and vise
- wade and weighed
- wail and whale
- waist and waste
- wait and weight
- waive and wave
- waiver and waver
- wale and whale
- war and wore
- ward and warred
- ware, wear, and where
- warn and worn
- wax and whacks
- way, weigh and whey
- we and wee
- we'd and weed
- we'll, weal, wheal and wheel
- we're and weir
- we're, were and whir
- we've and weave
- weak and week
- wean and ween
- wearer and where're
- weather and whether
- wee and whee
- wet and whet
- wheeled and wield
- which and witch
- while and wile
- whiled and wild
- whine and wine
- whined, wind and wined
- whirled and world
- whit and wit
- white and wight
- whither and wither
- who's and whose
- whoa and woe
- wood and would
- yack and yak
- yoke and yolk
- yore, you're and your
- you'll and Yule
- These pairs become homophones in certain dialects only (mostly in American English)
- Names