40 Examples of Homophones Word List

40 Examples of Homophones Word List

There are words in English that are pronounced the same but have different meanings. These words are called “Homophones”. It is easier to spot in a post. The homophone word used in the conversation can instantly confuse and ponder the meaning of the sentence. Since knowing Homophone words increases vocabulary knowledge, it improves speaking and writing skills. Words written in English are not always read in the same way. The pronunciation of the word is not as it is written. For this reason, homophone words may emerge.

1. ads – adds – adz
2. allowed – aloud
3. baron – barren
4. been – bin
5. calendar – calender
6. coral – choral
7. cored – chord – cord
8. course – coarse
9. crape – crepe
10. cruel – crewel
11. duel – dual
12. fends – fens
13. forward – foreword
14. immanent – imminent
15. jinks – jinx
16. leach – leech
17. lee – lea
18. lends – lens
19. mary – marry – merry
20. matter – madder

21. meet – mete – meat
22. mustard – mustered
23. not – knot
24. peer – pier
25. peon – paean – paeon
26. pore – pour
27. precedence – precedents
28. quarts – quartz
29. roux – rue
30. sax – sacks
31. serge – surge
32. sole – soul
33. stile – style
34. trader – traitor
35. we’ll – wheel
36. whale – wale – wail
37. wont – want
38. worn – warn
39. wring – ring
40. yoke – yolk