250 Important English Homophones for Learning English and Students Exams
aisle / isle
ante / auntie
bare / bear
base / bass
beat / beet
berry / bury
bored / board
break / brake
buy / by / bye
cell / sell
cent / scent / sent
serial / cereal
coarse / course
complement / compliment
die / dye
do / dew / due
dual / duel
elicit / illicit
eye / I
fair / fare
fate / fete
faze / phase
flu / flue
for / four / fore
gene / jean
gnu / knew / new
grate / great
hair / hare
hall / haul
heal / heel
high / hi
him / hymn
hoard / horde
hoarse / horse
holy / wholly
hour / our
idle / idol
in / inn
its / it’s
knight / night
knot / not
know / no
lead / led
leased / least
lessen / lesson
lie / lye
links / lynx
made / maid
mail / male
main / mane
manner / manor
marry / merry
meat / meet
metal / mettle
might / mite
moan / mown
muscle / mussel
naval / navel
none / nun
oar / ore
one / won
pair / pare / pear
patience / patients
pause / paws
peace / piece
plain / plane
precede / proceed
principal / principle
profit / prophet
rain / reign / rein
raise / rays / raze
rap / wrap
read / red
road / rode
rowed / road
role / roll
root / route
rose / rows
rye / wry
scene / seen
sea / see
sew / so / sow
serial / cereal
serf / surf
shear / sheer
shoe / shoo
sic / sick
sign / sine
slay / sleigh
slumber / lumber
sole / soul
son / sun
steal / steel
team / teem
tear / tier
their / there / they’re
to / too / two
toe / tow
wail / whale
wait / weight
waist / waste
way / weigh / whey
weak / week
weather / whether
who’s / whose
won / one
wrap / rap
wright / right / write
wrote / rote
yew / you
you’re / your
accept / except
access / excess
advice / advise
affect / effect
aisle / isle
altar / alter
arc / ark
assent / ascent
ate / eight
allowed / aloud
allusion / illusion
beer / bier
blew / blue
bolder / boulder
borne / born
bow / bough
brake / break
buy / by / bye
capitol / capital
censor / censure
coarse / course
complement / compliment
cue / queue
days / daze
dear / deer
die / dye
dew / due
discreet / discrete
dual / duel
ewe / you
faint / feint
fare / fair
faze / phase
flair / flare
flew / flu / flue
flour / flower
for / four / fore
former / latter
gene / jean
gnu / knew / new
grate / great
guarantee / guaranty
hail / hale
hair / hare
hangar / hanger
hart / heart
heal / heel
hear / here
holy / wholly
hour / our
idol / idle
in / inn
its / it’s
knight / night
knot / not
lead / led
lessen / lesson
loan / lone
made / maid
mail / male
manner / manor
marry / merry
mate / eight
maze / maize
metal / mettle
might / mite
moan / mown
muscle / mussel
navel / naval
none / nun
oar / ore
one / won
pail / pale
pair / pare / pear
patience / patients
paws / pause
peace / piece
plain / plane
precede / proceed
principal / principle
profit / prophet
rain / rein / reign
raise / rays / raze
rap / wrap
read / red
road / rode
role / roll
root / route
rose / rows
rye / wry
scene / seen
sea / see
sew / so / sow
shear / sheer
shoe / shoo
sic / sick
sign / sine
slumber / lumber
sole / soul
son / sun
steal / steel
team / teem
tear / tier
there / their / they’re
to / too / two
toe / tow
wail / whale
wait / weight
waist / waste
way / weigh / whey
weak / week
weather / whether
who’s / whose
won / one
wrap / rap
wright / right / write
wrote / rote
yew / you
you’re / your
accept / except
access / excess
advice / advise
affect / effect
aisle / isle
altar / alter
arc / ark
assent / ascent
ate / eight
allowed / aloud
allusion / illusion
beer / bier
blew / blue
bolder / boulder
borne / born
bow / bough
brake / break
buy / by / bye
capitol / capital
censor / censure
