When creating spoken utterances, it is wise to refer to this list because it is simple to become constricted and ignore the possibility of a homophone in favor of the specific meaning you have in mind.
Definition-
Words with diverse meanings but similar sounds are known as homophones. They are typically spelled differently so that they stand out when written, but because they could be confusing in a speech-based interface, it is recommended to avoid using them there. When creating spoken utterances, it is wise to refer to this list because it is simple to become constricted and ignore the possibility of a homophone in favor of the specific meaning you have in mind.
*Elementary*
Here is a list of helpful homophones for students at the primary or beginning levels.
Be / bee
Bean / been
Buy / by
Eye / I
Hear / here
Hour / our
Know / no
Knows / nose
Mail / male
Meat / meet
Plain / plane
Prince / prints
Right / write
Road / rode
Sail / sale
Sea / see
Son / sun
Steal / steel
Storey / story
Tail / tale
Their / there
To / two
Wear / where
Wood / would
*Pre* *Intermediate*
Here is a list of interesting homophones for students at the pre-intermediate level.
Ate / eight
Blew / blue
Brake / break
Cell / sell
Cent / sent
Creak / creek
Dear / deer
Feat / feet
Find / fined
Hair / hare
Heal / he’ll
Hole / whole
Made / maid
New / knew
Oar / or
One / won
Passed / past
Poor / pour
Shore / sure
So / sow
Sole / soul
Stair / stare
Their / they’re
Theirs / there’s
Threw / through
Throne / thrown
Way / weigh
We’d / weed
We’ll / wheel
Which / witch
Who’s / whose
Your / you’re
*Intermediate*
This page contains a list of useful homophones for intermediate level learners.
Allowed / aloud
Band / banned
Bare / bear
Billed / build
Boar / bore
Board / bored
Bold / bowled
Bread / bred
Bridal / bridle
Cent / scent
Cereal / serial
Chews / choose
Crews / cruise
Days / daze
Desert (v) / dessert
Dies / dyes
Dies / dyes
Fair / fare
Farther / father
Fir / fur
Flew / flu
Flour / flower
Gnus / news
Guessed / guest
Guise / guys
Hay / hey
Heal / heel
Heard / herd
Higher / hire
I’ll / isle
Knead / need
Knight / night
Knot / not
Mind / mined
Missed / mist
Nun / none
Ode / owed
Oh / owe
Pail / pale
Pairs / pears
Pause / paws
Peace / piece
Peer / pier
Pole / poll
Pore / pour
Pray / prey
Raise / rays
Rapper / wrapper
*Upper* *Intermediate*
This page contains a list of useful homophones for upper intermediate level learners.
Graze / greys
Groan / grown
Heard / herd
Heel / he’ll
Idle / idol
Lacks / lax
Lays / laze
Leased / least
Loch / lock
Locks / lox
Loot / lute
Mall / maul
Manner / manor
Mewl / mule
Mews / muse
Miner / minor
Moat / mote
Mode / mowed
Muscle / mussel
Paced / paste
Palate / palette
Peak / pique
Praise / prays
Pride / pried
Pries / prize
Principal / principle
Profit / prophet
Sac / sack
Sacks / sax
Scents / sense
Seamen / semen
Seas / seize
Side / sighed
Sighs / size
Sign / sine
Sink / sync
Slay / sleigh
Some / sum
Straight / strait
Suede / swayed
Suite / sweet
Sundae / Sunday
Tacks / tax
Thai / tie
Thyme / time
Told / tolled
Tracked / tract
Troop / troupe
Trussed / trust
Tucks / tux
Yoke / yolk
*Advanced*
This page contains a list of useful homophones for Advanced level learners.
Cymbal / symbol
Dew / due
Done / dun
Draft / draught
Earns / urns
Ewes / use
Eyelet / islet
Gnu / knew
Halls / hauls
Heed / he’d
Hertz / hurts
Him / hymn
Hoarse / horse
Holy / wholly
Instance / instants
Conclusion-
Standard British English is used to create this alphabetical list of homophones. Some words are not homophones in all dialects and dialects of English.
