Examples Of Homophones

Here are 150 examples of homophones that are the most common homophone pairs and groups in the English language.

And by ‘most common’, we mean most common as per our own arbitrary decision making. There are thousands of homophones in total, so we went through the list and picked out examples of homophones that we felt are used most often on a day-to-day basis.

To make it on to this particular list, there had to be at least two homophones that are in everyday usage. This means that even though ‘the’ is a homophone (it’s pair is ‘thee’), it didn’t make it on to this list seeing as very few people use the word ‘thee’ anymore.

We’ve also left out a few words from homophone groups for a similar reason. For example, ‘air’ and ‘heir’ are on the list, but we didn’t include their additional homophones like ‘are’ and ‘ere’ as examples, as they’re rarely used in modern language.

Examples Of Homophones

1 eye I
2 air heir
3 aisle I’ll isle
4 ate eight
5 allowed aloud
6 awe oar or ore
7 band banned
8 bare bear
9 base bass
10 be bee
11 bean been
12 berry bury
13 bi buy by bye
14 billed build
15 blew blue
16 board bored
17 bold bowled
18 brake break
19 bread bred
20 brews bruise
21 brows browse
22 carat carrot karat
23 caught court
24 cell sell
25 cent scent sent
26 cereal serial
27 chews choose
28 chili chilly
29 chord cord cored
30 chute shoot
31 cite sight site
32 coarse course
33 colonel kernel
34 cymbal symbol
35 dear deer
36 dew do due
37 discussed disgust
38 ewe you
39 feat feet
40 find fined
41 fir fur
42 flaw floor
43 flea flee
44 flew flu
45 flour flower
46 for fore four
47 foul fowl
48 genes jeans
49 grate great
50 groan grown
51 guessed guest
52 heal heel he’ll
53 hear here
54 higher hire
55 him hymn
56 hoarse horse
57 hole whole
58 hour our
59 it’s its
60 knead kneed need
61 knew new
62 knight night
63 knot not
64 know no
65 laps lapse
66 lead led
67 leased least
68 loan lone
69 made maid
70 mail male
71 maize maze
72 meat meet
73 mind mined
74 missed mist
75 moan mown
76 morning mourning
77 none nun
78 one won
79 overseas oversees
80 paced paste
81 pain pane
82 pair pear
83 passed past
84 patience patients
85 pause paws pores pours
86 paw poor pore pour
87 peace piece
88 peak peek
89 pi pie
90 plain plane
91 pole poll
92 pray prey
93 presence presents
94 profit prophet
95 rain reign rein
96 raise rays
97 rap wrap
98 raw roar
99 read red
100 real reel
101 rose rows
102 right rite write
103 road rode rowed
104 role roll
105 sail sale
106 sauce source
107 saw soar sore
108 scene seen
109 sea see
110 seam seem
111 seas sees seize
112 sew so sow
113 side sighed
114 sighs size
115 soared sword
116 some sum
117 sort sought
118 stair stare
119 stake steak
120 stationary stationery
121 steal steel
122 suite sweet
123 sundae Sunday
124 tea tee
125 tense tents
126 their there they’re
127 threw through
128 throne thrown
129 thyme time
130 tide tied
131 to too two
132 toe tow
133 wade weighed
134 waist waste
135 wait weight
136 waive wave
137 war wore
138 wear where
139 warn worn
140 way weigh
141 weak week
142 we’ll wheel
143 weather whether
144 weave we’ve
145 we’d weed
146 which witch
147 whine wine
148 who’s whose
149 wood would
150 your you’re
Make sure you check out our complete homophones list.