Homophones

A homophone is one of two or more words which sound the same but which have different meanings.

aye/eye	ate/eight
allowed/aloud	altar/alter
arc/ark	be/bee
bail/bale	bald/bawled
band/banned	bare/bear
baron/barren	base/bass
baste/based	beach/beech
bean/been	beat/beet
berries/buries	berth/birth
buy/by/bye	billed/build
blew/blue	boar/bore
board/bored	border/boarder
bough/bow	boy/buoy
brake/break	bread/bred
brewed/brood	canon/cannon
ceiling/sealing	cell/sell
cellar/seller	cent/scent/sent
cereal/serial	cheap/cheep
chews/choose	Chile/chilli/chilly
chord/cord	chute/shoot
cite/site/sight	clause/claws
coarse/course	colonel/kernel
conquer/conker	coward/cowered
currant/current	cymbal/symbol
days/daze	dear/deer
desert/dessert	dew/due/do
die/dye	doe/dough
dual/duel	earn/urn
ewe/yew/you	facts/fax
faint/feint	fair/fare
faze/phase	find/fined
flea/flee	flew/flu
flour/flower	for/fore/four
foul/fowl	frees/freeze/frieze
fur/fir	genes/jeans
grate/great	groan/grown
guessed/guest	guilt/gilt
hay/hey	hair/hare
heal/heel	hear/here
heard/herd	higher/hire
him/hymn	hoes/hose
holy/wholly	horse/hoarse
hour/our	idle/ldol
in/inn	knead/need
knight/night	knit/nit
knot/not	laps/lapse
lays/laze	lead/led
leak/leek	lessen/lesson
lightening/lightning	loan/lone
made/maid	mail/male
maize/maze	manner/manor
meat/meet	medal/meddle
mind/mined	miner/minor
missed/mist	moose/mousse
morning/mourning	muscles/mussels
no/know	nose/knows
none/nun	ode/owed
one/won	overdo/overdue
paced/paste	pain/pane
pair/pare/pear	passed/past
pause/paws	peace/piece
peak/peek	place/plaice
plain/plane	pleas/please
plum/plumb	poor/pore/pour
pray/prey	profit/prophet
queue/cue	rain/reign
rap/wrap	read/reed
red/read	real/reel
right/write	role/roll
root/route	sail/sale
scene/seen	sea/see
sew/so	shoe/shoo
side/sighed	size/sighs
slay/sleigh	soar/sore
sole/soul	some/sum
stair/stare	stake/steak
steal/steel	storey/story
suite/sweet	swayed/suede
tea/tee	tail/tale
taught/taut	team/teem
tease/tees/teas	tern/turn
their/they're/there	threw/through
throne/thrown	tied/tide
to/too/two	toed/toad/towed/told
undo/undue	vale/veil
vane/vain/vein	wade/weighed
wail/whale	waste/waist
wait/weight	ware/wear/where
way/whey/weigh	weather/whether
weak/week	which/witch
whine/wine	whirred/word
warn/worn	wood/would