378 Homophones That You May Be Using Incorrectly372104

This is a list and a guide for anyone who has problems with spelling. Many people still have spelling errors even after correction by some sort of software (Microsoft word etc.). After Reading this you should be able to significantly improve your writing skills.

Homophones

These words sound the same but are not spelled the same. If you are someone who has mostly learnt English through hearing or watching TV this may be one of the hardest areas for you to master. Though these words sound the same they usually mean completely different things; this can ruin your written material and the message it is meant to convey. Due to the amount of homophone in the list, definitions are not given. If you are curious about which one to use simply define the desired word in a dictionary, an online dictionary is given in the resources box. Keep in mind that this list is a mixture of both British English and American English. The list is in alphabetic order. The following is a list of homophones:

accept and except acclamation and acclimation acts and axe aeration and erration aerie and airy affect and effect aid and aide ail and ale air, ere, and heir aisle, I'll and isle all and awl allowed and aloud allude and elude altar and alter appose and oppose arc and ark are and our ascent and assent ate and eight aye, eye and I bail and bale bait and bate bald, balled and bawled ball and bawl band and banned bard and barred bare and bear baron and barren base and bass based and baste bazaar and bizarre be and bee beach and beech bean and been beat and beet been and bin beer and bier berry and bury berth and birth better and bettor bight and bite blew and blue boar, boor and bore board and bored boarder and border bode and bowed bold and bowled boos and booze bough and bow boy and buoy braid and brayed braise/braize, brays and braze brake and break breach and breech bread and bred brewed and brood brews and bruise bridal and bridle burro and burrow bus and buss bused and bust but and butt buy, by and bye callous and callus can't and cant caret and carrot caries and carries cede and seed cell and sell cent, scent and sent cents, scents and sense cereal and serial cession and session chaise and chase chalk and chock chance and chants chews and choose chic and sheik choir and quire chord and cord chute and shoot cite, sight and site clause and claws click and clique close and clothes cocks and cox complement and compliment coop and coupe cosign and cosine council and counsel creak and creek crewed and crude crews and cruise cue and queue dam and damn Dane and deign days and daze dear and deer dense and dents dew, do and due die and dye dire and dyer discreet and discrete doe and dough done and dun doughs and doze dual and duel earn and urn either and ether emigrant and immigrant ewe, yew and you eyed and I'd faint and feint fair and fare fairy and ferry fate and fete faze and phase feat and feet find and fined fir and fur flair and flare flea and flee flecks and flex flew and flue flour and flower for, fore and four forego and forgo foreword and forward forth and fourth foul and fowl frees, freeze and frieze friar and fryer gait and gate gel and jell gneiss and nice gored and gourd grade and grayed grate and great grays and graze groan and grown guessed and guest guise and guys hail and hale hair and hare hairy and harry hall and haul hay and hey hays and haze he'd and heed he'll, heal and heel hear and here heard and herd heated and heeded hew and hue hi and high higher and hire him and hymn ho and hoe hoard and horde hoarse and horse hoes and hose hole and whole hour and our idle and idol imminent and immanent in and inn incite and insight intense and intents intension and intention it's and its jam and jamb knave and nave knead, kneed and need knew and new knight and night knit and nit knot, naught and not know and no knows and nose lacks and lax lade and laid lain and lane lair and layer laps and lapse lays and laze leach and leech lead and led leak and leek lean and lien lends and lens lesser and lessor let's and lets liar and lyre lie and lye links and lynx lo and low load and lode loan and lone loch and lock locks and lox loop and loupe loos and lose lose and loose made and maid mail and male main and mane maize and maze mall and maul massed and mast mat and matte meat, meet and mete medal, meddle, metal and mettle might and mite mince and mints mind and mined miner and minor missed and mist mooed and mood moor and more morning and mourning muscle and mussel naval and navel nay and neigh nicks and nix none and nun oar, or and ore oh and owe one and won oohs and ooze overseas and oversees packed and pact pail and pale pain and pane pair, pare and pear passed and past pause and paws peace and piece peak, peek and pique peal and peel pedal, peddle and petal peer and pier pi and pie plain and plane plainer and planar plait and plate pleas and please pole and poll poor, pore and pour populace and populous posses, possess, poses and posies praise, prays and preys pray and prey pride and pried pries and prize prince and prints principal and principle rack and wrack raid and rayed rail and rale rain, reign and rein raise, rays and raze rap and wrap read and red read and reed real and reel reek and wreak residence and residents rest and wrest rhyme and rime right, rite, wright and write ring and wring rise and ryes road, rode and rowed roe and row role and roll roomer and rumo[u]r root and route rose and rows rote and wrote rude and rued rues and ruse rung and wrung rye and wry sail and sale scene and seen sea and see seam and seem sear and seer seas, sees and seize sects and sex sew, so and sow shake and sheik shear and sheer shoe and shoo sic and sick side and sighed sighs and size sign and sine slay and sleigh sleight and slight slew and slough soar and sore soared and sword sold and soled sole and soul some and sum son and sun stair and stare stake and steak steal and steel step and steppe storey and story straight and strait suite and sweet tacked and tact tacks and tax tail and tale taper and tapir tarry and terry taught and taut tea and tee team and teem tears and tiers teas, tease and tees tense and tents than and then there, their, and they're threw and through throne and thrown thyme and time tide and tied tier and tire to, too, and two toad, toed and towed toe and tow tracked and tract tray and trey udder and utter vain, vane and vein vale and veil vial and vile vice and vise wade and weighed wail and whale waist and waste wait and weight waive and wave waiver and waver war and wore ward and warred ware, wear, and where warn and worn wax and whacks way, weigh and whey we and wee we'd and weed we'll, weal and wheel we're and weir we're, were and whir we've and weave weak and week weather and whether wet and whet wheeled and wield which and witch while and wile whiled and wild whine and wine whined, wind and wined whirled and world whit and wit who's and whose whoa and woe wood and would yack and yak yaw, yore, you're and your yoke and yolk you'll and Yule

If you keep these common homophones in mind, you should look a lot more professional when writing! As you can see, there are a lot of homophones in the English language! Even native English speakers have trouble using all of these words correctly at the right times. If you have a lot of trouble using these words correctly you might want to consider hiring a professional Proofreader.

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