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Homonyms (also called homophones) are words that sound like one another but have different meanings. Some homonyms are spelled the same, like bark (the sound a dog makes) and bark (the outer layer of a tree trunk). Some homonyms are spelled differently, like one (the number) and won (having been victorious).
Note: The Columbia Guide to Standard English defines homophones as words that are pronounced alike and have different spellings (like flower and flour), and defines homonyms as a more general term that includes both homophones and words that are spelled alike and have different meanings (like bank [the edge of a river] and bank [a financial institution]).
However, the Random House Unabridged Dictionary (1993 edition) defines the terms homonym and homophone in such a way that each term includes words that are pronounced alike and have different spellings, and also words that are spelled alike and have different meanings.
Some common homonyms include:
ad/add
allowed/aloud
ant/aunt
ate/eight
ball/bawl
band/banned
bear/bare
be/bee
billed/build
blew/blue
board/bored
boy/buoy
brake/break
by/bye/buy
beach/beech
bolder/boulder
bread/bred
brouse/brows
capital/capitol
caret/carrot/carat/karat
cell/sell
cent/scent/sent
census/senses
cereal/serial
chews/choose
choral/coral
chute/shoot
clothes/close
colonel/kernel
creak/creek
crews/cruise
cymbal/symbol
days/daze
dear/deer
dew/do/due
die/dye
disc/disk
discreet/discrete
discussed/disgust
doe/dough
doughs/doze
earn/urn
ewe/you
eye/I
fare/fair
feat/feet
find/fined
fir/fur
flea/flee
flew/flu/flue
flower/flour
for/four/fore
forth/fourth
foul/fowl
frees/freeze
gneiss/nice
gnu/knew/new
gored/gourd
gorilla/guerrilla
grays/graze
grate/great
guessed/guest
gym/Jim
hale/hail
hall/haul
hare/hair
heal/heel/he'll
heard/herd
hew/hue
hi/high
higher/hire
him/hymm
hair/hare
hoarse/horse
hole/whole
hour/our
idle/idol
idle/idol/idyl
in/inn
incite/insight
its/it's
jam/jamb
jeans/genes
knead/need/kneed
knight/night
knows/nose/no's
lead/led
leased/least
lessen/lesson
lie/lye
links/lynx
load/lode/lowed
loan/lone
locks/lox
loot/lute
maid/made
mail/male
maize/maze
meet/meat
medal/meddle
mince/mints
miner/minor
missed/mist
mooed/mood
morning/mourning
muscle/mussel
mussed/must
nays/neighs
no/know
none/nun
nose/knows/no's
not/knot/naught
one/won
or/oar/ore
overdo/overdue
paced/paste
pail/pale
pain/pane
pair/pare/pear
pain/pane
passed/past
patience/patients
pause/paws
peace/piece
peak/peek/pique
peal/peel
pedal/peddle
peer/pier
pi/pie
plain/plane
plum/plumb
praise/prays/preys
presence/presents
principal/principle
prince/prints
quarts/quartz
quince/quints
rain/reign/rein
raise/rays/raze
rap/wrap
read/reed
read/red
real/reel
reek/wreak
rest/wrest
review/revue
right/rite/write
ring/wring
road/rode/rowed
roe/row
role/roll
root/route
rose/rows
rote/wrote
roux/rue
rye/wry
sacks/sax
sail/sale
sawed/sod
scene/seen
sea/see
seam/seem
seas/sees/seize
serf/surf
serge/surge
sew/so/sow
shoe/shoo
side/sighed
sighs/size
sign/sine
sight/site/cite
slay/sleigh
soar/sore
soared/sword
sole/soul
son/sun
some/sum
spade/spayed
staid/stayed
stair/stare
stake/steak
stationary/stationery
steal/steel
straight/strait
suede/swayed
summary/summery
sundae/Sunday
tacks/tax
tail/tale
taut/taught
tea/tee
teas/tease/tees
tents/tense
tern/turn
there/their/they're
threw/through
throne/thrown
thyme/time
tide/tied
tighten/titan
to/too/two
toad/toed/towed
toe/tow
told/tolled
tracked/tract
trussed/trust
use/ewes
vein/vane
verses/versus
vial/vile
vice/vise
wade/weighed
wail/whale
waist/waste
wait/weight
waive/wave
Wales/whales
war/wore
ware/wear/where
warn/worn
wax/whacks
way/weigh/whey
we/wee
weather/whether
we'd/weed
weld/welled
we'll/wheel
wen/when
we've/weave
weak/week
which/witch
whirled/world
whirred/word
whine/wine
whoa/woe
who's/whose
wood/would
worst/wurst
yoke/yolk
you'll/yule
your/you're/yore
Activities on Homonyms:
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Homonym Multiple Choice Comprehension Quiz #1 Answer ten multiple-choice questions about common homonyms. Words: to, two, too, you're, your, write, right, their, there, they're. Or go to the answers. |
Homonym Multiple Choice Comprehension Quiz #2 Answer ten multiple-choice questions about common homonyms. Words: buy, by, bye, for, four, cent, scent, sent, eye, I. Or go to the answers. |
Homonym Multiple Choice Comprehension Quiz #3 Answer ten multiple-choice questions about common homonyms. Words: oar, or, ore, one, won, rain, reign, rein, hour, our. Or go to the answers. |
Homonym Multiple Choice Comprehension Quiz #4 Answer ten multiple-choice questions about common homonyms. Words: road, rode, rowed, who's, whose, gnu, knew, new, its, it's. Or go to the answers. |
Homonym Multiple Choice Comprehension Quiz #5 Answer ten multiple-choice questions about common homonyms. Words: raise, rays, raze, sail, sale, sight, site, cite, ant, aunt. Or go to the answers. |
Homonym Multiple Choice Comprehension Quiz #6 Answer ten multiple-choice questions about common homonyms. Words: flew, flue, flu, steal, steel, sew, so, sow, pail, pale. Or go to the answers. |
Homonym Cloze Activity Do this fill-in-the-blank activity and see if you can find these common homonyms. Or go to the Answers |
Homonym Cloze Activity #2 Do this fill-in-the-blank activity and see if you can find these common homonyms. Or go to the Answers |
Write Eight Sets of Homophones Think of and write eight sets of homophones. Sample answers: night/knight, I/eye, by/buy, sea/see, flu/flew, hear/here, wear/where, flower/flour. |
Accept/Except Commonly Misused Words - Comprehension Worksheet In this printable, students read the definitions of two commonly-misused words, accept and except, then answer questions about the words and fill in the blanks in sentences. Or go to the answers. |
Affect/Effect Commonly Misused Words - Comprehension Worksheet In this printable, students read the definitions of two commonly-misused words, affect and effect, then answer questions about the words and fill in the blanks in sentences. Or go to the answers. |
Capital/Capitol Commonly Misused Words - Comprehension Worksheet In this printable, students read the definitions of two commonly-misused words, capital and capitol, then answer questions about the words and fill in the blanks in sentences. Or go to the answers. |
Its/It's Commonly Misused Words - Comprehension Worksheet In this printable, students read the definitions of two commonly-misused words, its and it's, then answer questions about the words and fill in the blanks in sentences. Or go to the answers. |
Principal/Principle Commonly Misused Words - Comprehension Worksheet In this printable, students read the definitions of two commonly-misused words, principal and principle, then answer questions about the words and fill in the blanks in sentences. Or go to the answers. |
Who's/Whose Commonly Misused Words - Comprehension Worksheet In this printable, students read the definitions of two commonly-misused words, whose and who's, then answer questions about the words and fill in the blanks in sentences. Or go to the answers. |
Your/You're Commonly Misused Words - Comprehension Worksheet In this printable, students read the definitions of two commonly-misused words, your and you're, then answer questions about the words and fill in the blanks in sentences. Or go to the answers. |
There/Their/They're Commonly Misused Words - Comprehension Worksheet In this printable, students read the definitions of three commonly-misused words, there, their and they're, then answer questions about the words and fill in the blanks in sentences. Or go to the answers. |
To/Too/Two Commonly Misused Words - Comprehension Worksheet In this printable, students read the definitions of three commonly-misused words, to, too and two, then answer questions about the words and fill in the blanks in sentences. Or go to the answers. |
Cite/Sight/Site Commonly Misused Words - Comprehension Worksheet In this printable, students read the definitions of three commonly-misused words, cite, sight and site, then answer questions about the words and fill in the blanks in sentences. Or go to the answers. |
Buy/By/Bye Commonly Misused Words - Comprehension Worksheet In this printable, students read the definitions of three commonly-misused words, buy, by and bye, then answer questions about the words and fill in the blanks in sentences. Or go to the answers. |
Homonyms: Spelling Word Questions #1 Use the list of homonyms to answer simple questions that test understanding. Words: buy, by, bye, heal, heel, he'll, seas, sees, seize, their, there, they're, to, too, two. Or go to the answers. |
Homonyms: Spelling Word Questions #2 Use the list of homonyms to answer simple questions that test understanding. Words: cent, scent, sent, dew, do, due, flew, flu, flue, rain, rein, reign, raise, rays, raze. Or go to the answers. |
Homonyms: Spelling Word Questions #3 Use the list of homonyms to answer simple questions that test understanding. Words: cite, sight, site, gnu, knew, new, knead, kneed, need, pair, pare, pear, sew, so, sow. Or go to the answers. |
Homonyms: Spelling Word Questions #4 Use the list of homonyms to answer simple questions that test understanding. Words: dear, deer, flour, flower, weather, whether, for, fore, four, praise, prays, preys, right, rite, write. Or go to the answers. |
Homonyms: Spelling Word Questions #5 Use the list of homonyms to answer simple questions that test understanding. Words: maize, maze, sail, sale, pain, pane, passed, past, some, sum, steal, steel, oar, or, ore. Or go to the answers. |
Homonyms: Spelling Word Questions #6 Use the list of homonyms to answer simple questions that test understanding. Words: seam, seem, lie, lye, plain, plane, one, won, hair, hare, meat, meet, way, weigh, whey. Or go to the answers. |
Homonyms: Spelling Word Questions #7 Use the list of homonyms to answer simple questions that test understanding. Words: red, read, creak, creek, pail, pale, war, wore, loan, lone, wail, whale, teas, tease, tees. Or go to the answers. |
Homonyms: Spelling Word Questions #8 Use the list of homonyms to answer simple questions that test understanding. Words: tacks, tax, rap, die, dye, wrap, witch, no, waist, waste, know, load, lowed. Or go to the answers. |
Homonyms: Spelling Word Questions #9 Use the list of homonyms to answer simple questions that test understanding. Words: sole, soul, chute, shoot, peace, piece, toad, toed, towed, made, maid, tied, tide, mail, made. Or go to the answers. |
Homonyms: Spelling Word Questions #10 Use the list of homonyms to answer simple questions that test understanding. Words: bare, bear, blew, blue, heard, herd, ewe, you, yew, pause, paws, sore, soar, wear, where. Or go to the answers. |
Find a Pair of Homonyms for Each Letter See if you can think of and write down a pair of homonyms for each letter of the alphabet. Or go to a sample answer page. |
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