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.