20 Categories of Words That Sound the Same (Homophones)

Homophones are words that sound (are pronounced) the same but have different meanings and spellings. 

The following are the 20 categories of homophones in English Language: 

A

air - heir

allowed - aloud 

altar - alter 

ate - eight 

B

band - banned 

bare - bear

base - bass

bean - been

bite - byte 

billed - build

blew - blue

board - bored

boy - buoy 

brake - break 

bread - bred

but - bye - by 

C

ceiling - sailing 

cell - sell

cent - scent 

cereal - serial 

check - cheque 

coarse - course 

D

dear - deer 

die - dye

draft - draught 

F

faint - feint 

fair - fare 

fear - feet 

find - fined 

flew - flu

flour - flower 

G

gorilla - guerrilla 

grate - great 

groan - grown 

guessed - guest 

H

hair - hare

hall - haul

heal - heel - he'll 

hear - here

heard - herd

hi - high

higher - hire

him - hymn 

hole - whole

holy - holey - wholly 

I

idle - idol

it's - its

K

key - quay 

knew - new

knight - night 

knot - not

know - no

knows - nose

L

lead - led

links - lynx 

loan - lone

M

made - maid  

mail - male 

mare - mayor 

marshal - martial 

meat - meey

miner - minor 

mind - mined

missed - mist 

moose - mousse 

muscle - mussel 

N

none - nun

O

one - won

P

packed - pact

pain - pane

pair - pear

passed - past 

pause - paws

pea - pee

peace - piece

peak - peek 

plain - plane

plum - plumb 

pole - poll

practice - practise

praise - prays - preys

principal - principle

profit - prophet 

R

rain - reign 

raise - rays

rap - wrap

read - reed

right - write

role - roll

root - route 

rose - rows 

S

sale - sail

soar - sore

scene - seen 

sea - see

seas - sees - seize

sew - so

side - sighed 

sight - site

sole - soul

some - sum

son - Sun

stair - stare 

stake - steak

steal - steel 

T

tail - tale

tear - tier 

there - their - they're 

threw - through 

throne - thrown 

tide - tied 

tire - tyre

to - too - two 

V

vain - vane - vein 

W

wail - whale 

waist - waste 

wait - weight 

watt - what

way - weigh - whey 

we - wee

weak - week 

wear - where 

we'd - weed 

we'll - wheel 

weather - whether 

which - witch 

whine - wine

who's - whose 

wood - would 

Y

your - you're 

A language learner should read, pronounce, and practice speaking these categories of words. By using them often, the language learner can easily identify them when they are used by other speakers. 

Source

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