Homophones are words that share the same pronunciation but differ in meaning, spelling, or both. They can play vital role in poetry, jokes, and everyday conversation.
Discovering Homophones: The Attractive World of Same Sounding Words
the rich embroidery of English grammar, homophones stand out as a particularly interesting miracle. These are pairs of words that sound identical but have different meanings and spellings. They can add a layer of difficulty and often comedy to language. Here are some common examples and their usage.
Common Examples of Pair of words
- Abject/Object
- Absolute/Obsolete
- Accede/Exceed
- Access/Excess
- Accept/Except
- Accident/Incident
- Adopt/Adapt/Adept
- Advise/Advice
- Affect/Effect
- Ale/Ail
- Alter/Altar
- Air/Ere
- Bale/Bail
- Bare/Bear
- Beach/Beech
- Berth/Birth
- Beside/Besides
- Break/Brake
- Ball/Bawl
- Buy/By/Bye
- Cite/Site/Sight
- Sell/Cell
- Coarse/Course
- Cast/Caste
- Confident/Confidant
- Cheap/Cheep
- Dye/Die
- Dear/Deer
- Dose/Doze
- Defer/Differ
- Dual/Duel
- Dew/Due
- Expansive/Expensive
- Eligible/Illegible
- Feat/Feet
- Fare/Fair
- Envelop/Envelope
- Floor/Flour
- Grate/Great/Greet
- Glass/Gloss
- Heal/Hale/Heel
- Heard/Herd
- Hair/Heir
- Idol/Ideal
- Injection/Injunction
- Insite/Insight
- Knew/New
- Kettle/Cattle
- Lesson/Lessen
- Main/Mane/Man
- Meet/Meat
- Plan/Plain/Plane
- Pray/Prey
- Pair/Pear
- Sun/Son
- Sale/Sail
- Raise/Raze
- Sweet
- Sweat
- Some/sum
- Vain/Van
- Wait/Weight
- Weak/Week
- Whit/Wit
- Yoke/Yolk
- Year/Yare
- Zealous/Jealous
- Vacation/Vocation