1000 Homophones Words List In English
There are many homophones in the English language, which can be confusing for ESL students. This list of 1000 homophones will help you learn and understand these words better. Remember to use context clues and a dictionary to help you decipher the meanings of these words. Practice makes perfect! 🙂
- Few – phew
- Hair – hare
- Hair – hare
- Heal – heel – he’ll
- Muscle – mussel
- Stake – steak
- Woe – whoa
- Ail – ale
- Braise – brays – braze
- Buy – by
- Canvas – canvass
- Foaled – fold
- Stationary – Stationery
- Tail – Tale
- Wait – weight
- Band – banned
- Boarder – border
- Feat – feet
- Him – hymn
- Miner – minor – mynah
- Pearl – purl
- Stare – Stair
- We – wee – whee
- Berth – birth
- Boy – buoy
- Holey – holy – wholly
- Knows – nose
- Plain – plane
- Rheum – room
- Tern – turn
- Aisle – isle
- Allowed – aloud
- Cheap – cheep
- Coign – coin
- Die – dye
- Eery – eyrie
- Moat – mote
- Dew – due
- Faze – phase
- Flour – flower
- Locks – lox
- Peer – pier
- Sign – sine
- Sort – Sought
- Waist – waste
- Baize – bays
- Bold – bowled
- Bridal – bridle
- Complement – compliment
- Find – fined
- Genes – jeans
- Hail – hale
- Tic – tick
- Ad – add
- Links – lynx
- Real – reel
- Sale – sail
- Tacks – tax
- Told – tolled
- Weal – we’ll – wheel
- Coal – kohl
- Furs – furze
- He’d – heed
- Leach – leech
- Lead – led
- Road – rode
- Scene – seen
- Yaw – yore – your – you’re
- Braid – brayed
- Chord – cord
- Coarse – course
- In – inn
- Key – quay
- Right – write
- Roe – row
- Cent – scent
- Check – cheque
- Cue – kayo – queue
- Flea – flee
- Might – mite
- Some – sum
- Waist – waste
- Be – bee
- Coarse – course
- Ewe – yew – you
- Fair – fare
- Franc – frank
- Made – maid
- Swat – swot
- Bough – bow
- Crews – cruise
- Fair – fare
- Greave – grieve
- Jewel – joule
- Knew – new
- Palate – palette – pallet
- Cede – seed
- Complement – compliment
- Heroin – heroine
- Hour – our
- Mall – maul
- Rood – rude
- Tear – tier
- Born – borne
- Pascal – paschal
- Sea – see
- Straight – strait
- Sun – Son
- Tare – tear
- Wean – ween
- White – wight
- Bread – bred
- Gneiss – nice
- Haw – hoar – whore
- Knot – not
- Lac – lack
- Pea – pee
- Wait – weight
- Flair – flare
- Hoarse – horse
- Raw – roar
- Reek – wreak
- Rest – wrest
- Root – route
- Toad – toed – towed
- Bard – barred
- Bark – barque
- Boar – bore
- Brae – bray
- Higher – hire
- Law – lore
- Sloe – slow
- Sort – sought
- Greys – graze
- Lade – laid
- Load – lode
- Meat – meet
- Medal – meddle
- Nigh – nye
- Pair – pear
- Whirled – world
- Call – caul
- Creak – creek
- Curb – herb
- Knock – nock
- Lo – low
- Mean – mien
- Profit – prophet
- Whine – wine
- Discreet – discrete
- Gnaw – nor
- Hoard – horde
- Loop – loupe
- Rung – wrung
- Wart – wort
- Wood – would
- Boos – booze
- Morning – mourning
- Pause – paws – pores – pours
- Spa – spar
- Stair – stare
- Wheald – wheeled
- Who’s – whose
- Auk – orc
- Gild – guild
- Hew – hue
- Review – revue
- Saw – soar – sore
- Storey – story
- Throes – throws
- All – awl
- Ceiling – sealing
- Cite – sight – site
- Cousin – cozen
- Gorilla – guerilla
- Saver – savour
- Tide – tied
- Wax – whacks
- Accessary – accessory
- Complacent – complaisant
- Giro – gyro
- Idle – idol
- Pail – pale
- Read – reed
- Tail – tale
- For – fore – four
- Grate – great
- Know – no
- Oar – or
- Stationary – stationery
- Their – there
- Wear – where
- Alms – arms
- Be – bee
- Done – dun
- Galipot – gallipot
- Lessen – lesson
- Shake – sheikh
- Vial – vile
- Bitten – bittern
- Earn – urn
- Fate – fête
- Hangar – hanger
- Idle – idol
- Mind – mined
- Weather – whether
- Away – aweigh
- Ferrule – ferule
- Flew – flu – flue
- Knave – nave
- Seam – seem
- Sew – so – sow
- War – wore
- Buyer – byre
- Dear – deer
- Foul – fowl
- Leak – leek
- Packs – pax
- Practice – practise
- Suite – sweet
- Warn – worn
- Baron – barren
- Cell – sell
- Lase – laze
- Lie – lye
- Rose – rows
- Side – Sighed
- Vain – vane – vein
- Aren’t – aunt
- Auger – augur
- Bazaar – bizarre
- Cast – caste
- Douse – dowse
- Hear – here
- Root – route
- Spade – spayed
- Eye – I
- Groan – grown
- Principal – principle
- Quarts – quartz
- Scull – skull
- Thyme – time
- Way – weigh – whey
- Clack – claque
- Clew – clue
- Fay – fey
- Guessed – guest
- Place – plaice
- Plum – plumb
- Poof – pouffe
- Taught – taut – tort
- Cent – scent – sent
- Cereal – serial
- Deviser – divisor
- Faint – feint
- Lam – lamb
- Satire – satyr
- Shoe – shoo
- Shore – sure
- Desert – dessert
- It’s – its
- Peace – piece
- Rough – ruff
- Sauce – source
- Son – sun
- Watt – what
- Weaver – weever
- Bloc – block
- Meat – meet – mete
- One – won
- Peak – peek – peke – pique
- Real – reel
- Sane – seine
- Sear – seer – sere
- Soar – Sore
- Caw – core – corps
- Close – cloze
- Knob – nob
- Liar – lyre
- Pi – pie
- Rye – wry
- Way – weigh
- Levee – levy
- Loan – lone
- Maize – maze
- Naval – navel
- Ring – wring
- Team – teem
- Threw – through
- Bail – bale
- Coo – coup
- Flaw – floor
- Hay – hey
- Indict – indite
- Mode – mowed
- Steal – steel
- Air – heir
- File – phial
- Laager – lager
- Nay – neigh
- Packed – pact
- Sink – synch
- Staid – stayed
- Ware – wear – where
- Billed – build
- Cereal – serial
- Pleas – please
- Right – rite – wright – write
- Scene – Seen
- Tough – tuff
- Which – witch
- Bean – been
- Beer – bier
- Profit – prophet
- Rote – wrote
- Sole – soul
- Tor – tore
- Wet – whet
- Cops – copse
- Heard – herd
- Lay – ley
- Manna – manner
- Rouse – rows
- Sew – so
- Vale – veil
- Cymbal – symbol
- Doe – doh – dough
- Draft – draught
- Made – maid
- Moor – more
- Rain – reign – rein
- Were – whirr
- Ante – – anti –
- Ho – hoe
- Lain – lane
- Pain – pane
- Poor – pour
- Principal – principle
- Sight – site
- Stationary – stationery
- Base – bass
- Cell – sell
- Floe – flow
- Him – hymn
- Licker – liquor
- Pedal – peddle
- Pica – pika
- Fort – fought
- Main – mane
- Mantel – mantle
- Oh – owe
- Pair – pare – pear
- Peace – piece
- Roo – roux – rue
- Sole – Soul
- Awe – oar – or – ore
- Bight – bite – byte
- Brake – break
- Buy – by – bye
- Knead – need
- Mark – marque
- Maw – more
- Meter – metre
- Beau – bow
- Fie – phi
- Metal – mettle
- None – nun
- Od – odd
- Te – tea – tee
- Terce – terse
- Bur – burr
- Hart – heart
- Licence – license
- Lieu – loo
- Mare – mayor
- Quean – queen
- Son – sun
- Broach – brooch
- Faun – fawn
- Fizz – phiz
- Foreword – forward
- Hour – our
- Some – sum
- Sweet – suite
- Ball – bawl
- Bare – bear
- Dual – duel
- Fah – far
- Farther – father
- Knight – night
- To – too – two
- Weir – we’re
- Caught – court
- Dam – damn
- Mail – male
- Stair – stare
- Stile – Style
- Wain – wane
- Wall – waul
- Ate – eight
- Board – bored
- For – four
- Friar – fryer
- Larva – lava
- None – nun
- Rode – Road
- Whirl – whorl
- Choir – quire
- Gait – gate
- Gilt – guilt
- Hear – here
- Pray – prey
- Retch – wretch
- Role – roll
- Yoke – yolk
- Brake – break
- Calendar – calender
- Hi – high
- Knight – night
- See – Sea
- Tuba – tuber
- Weak – week
- Me – mi
- Praise – prays – preys
- Sic – sick
- Throne – thrown
- To – too
- Tole – toll
- Wail – wale – whale
- Weak – week
- Bare – bear
- Bel – bell – belle
- Know – no
- Missed – mist
- Paten – patten – pattern
- Shear – sheer
- Steal – Steel
- Flex – flecks
- Lea – lee
- Loot – lute
- Marten – martin
- Plain – plane
- Ton – tun
- We’d – weed
- Bait – bate
- Caster – castor
- Forth – fourth
- Laps – lapse
- Waive – wave
- While – wile
- You’ll – yule
- Grisly – grizzly
- In – inn
- Peal – peel
- Pole – poll
- Seam – seem
- Stalk – stork
- Toe – tow
- Whig – wig
- Arc – ark
- But – butt
- Raise – rays – raze
- Side – sighed
- Some – Sum
- Steal – steel
- Tire – tyre
- Whit – wit
- Fir – fur
- Flour – flower
- Gamble – gambol
- Ode – owed
- Rota – rotor
- Sea – see
- Sole – soul
- Fir – fur
- Heal – heel
- Hole – whole
- Pawn – porn
- Rap – wrap
- Sauce – Source
- Stile – style
- There – their – they’re
- Altar – alter
- Aye – eye – I
- Beat – beet
- Brews – bruise
- Council – counsel
- Gays – gaze
- Hall – haul
- Axel – axle
- Bald – bawled
- Currant – current
- Marshal – martial
- Sail – sale
- Tale – tail
- Troop – troupe
- Blew – blue
- Censer – censor – sensor
- Climb – clime
- Freeze – frieze
- Gallop – galop
- Mask – masque
- Read – red
- Bay – bey
- Berry – bury
- Colonel – kernel
- Days – daze
- Knit – nit
- Lean – lien
- Moose – mousse
- Morning – mourning
- Aural – oral
- Beach – beech
- Knot – not
- Mail – male
- Seas – sees – seize
- Slay – sleigh
- Talk – torque
- Teas – tease
