1000 Homophones Pdf! No matter how many times you proofread your essay or paper, there is always that one mistake that you just can’t find. But have no fear, the English language has a plethora of words to help you make your point, even if you use them incorrectly. In this blog post, we’ll explore some of the most commonly confused English words.
Homophones Words List
- currant – current
- waste – waist
- merry – mary – marry
- swayed – suede
- slue – slough – slew
- write – right – rite
- bail – bale – baal
- tacks – tax
- in – inn
- i’ll – aisle – isle
- already – all ready
- bah – baa
- wrest – rest
- crape – crepe
- tudor – tutor – tooter
- – misses
- assistance – assistants
- arrant – errant
- burger – burgher
- gale – gail
- baron – barren
- pearl – purl
- lama – llama
- real – reel
- ho – hoe
- patience – patients
- penance – pennants
- mane – maine – main
- chauffeur – shofar
- broach – brooch
- burred – bird
- plum – plumb
- peak – peek – pique
- knock – nock
- adam – atom
- prince – prints
- bate – bait
- rays – raze – raise
- hour – our
- hold – holed
- know – no
- graham – gram
- sink – sync
- phrase – frays
- manner – manor
- maize – maze
- clack – claque
- rough – ruff
- pique – peak – peek
- graphed – graft
- reel – real
- wring – ring
- wry – rye
- udder – utter
- allusive – elusive – illusive
- innumerable – enumerable
- canvas – canvass
- foreword – forward
- build – billed
- warn – worn
- hue – hugh – hew
- discreet – discrete
- dane – deign
- capital – capitol
- plait – plate
- ariel – aerial
- bee – be
- vein – vain – vane
- niece – nice
- patted – padded
- phil – fill
- bases – basis
- ferry – fairy
- bard – barred
- purl – pearl
- elusive – illusive – allusive
- shoe – shoo
- horde – hoard
- coal – cole
- moat – mote
- led – lead
- tail – tale
- word – whirred
- whorled – world – whirled
- phew – few
- gaff – gaffe
- pervade – purveyed
- ewes – yews – use
- sorry – sari
- basis – bases
- fur – fir
- faze – phase
- peace – piece
- eye – i – aye
- chute – shoot
- phlox – flocks
- be – bee
- there – they’re – their
- slight – sleight
- vial – vile
- eek – eke
- altogether – all together
- affect – effect
- ode – owed
- affects – effects
- due – dew – do
- core – corps
- massed – mast
- sight – site – cite
- hay – hey
- reed – read
- cannon – canon
- naval – navel
- four – fore – for
- threw – through
- picot – pekoe
- weight – wait
- beat – beet
- sighed – side
- gourd – gored
- pane – pain
- accept – except
- kernel – colonel
- jinks – jinx
- they’re – their – there
- sow – sew – so
- canopy – canapé
- leis – lays – laze
- dam – damn
- hoard – horde
- bated – baited
- barred – bard
- effected – affected
- we’d – weed
- time – thyme
- bough – bow
- sic – sick
- boulder – bolder
- except – accept
- emend – amend
- stile – style
- packed – pact
- profit – prophet
- hare – hair
- basal – basil
- locks – lox – lochs
- buy – by – bye
- mall – maul
- maul – mall
- karat – carat – carrot – caret
- we’ll – wheel
- some – sum
- lay – lei
- morning – mourning
- cellar – seller
- whole – hole
- peer – pier
- cite – sight – site
- tucks – tux
- aureole – oriole
- mean – mien
- mussel – muscle
- lea – lee
- close – clothes – cloze
- brows – browse
- scene – seen
- been – bin
- where’s – wears – wares
- brewed – brood
- ale – ail
- brake – break
- tool – tulle
- weighed – wade
- paul – pall
- lei – lay
- venous – venus
- desert – dessert
- side – sighed
- pride – pried
- aunt – ant
- inn – in
- adieu – ado
- breech – breach
- too – two – to
- cue – queue
- innocence – innocents
- male – mail
- petal – pedal – peddle
- were – whir
- peat – pete
- one – won
- suite – sweet
- symbol – cymbal
- vile – vial
- berth – birth
- flower – flour
- bored – board
- loan – lone
- hew – hue – hugh
- sashay – sachet
- primer – primmer
- sundae – sunday
- wine – whine
- bald – balled – bawled
- misses – mrs
- holed – hold
- toed – towed – toad
- soul – sole
- lean – lien
- mince – mints
- seeder – cedar
- whales – wails – wales
- step – steppe
- dense – dents
- ewe – you – yew
- seen – scene
- elicit – illicit
- insight – incite
- alluded – eluded
- mews – muse
- heard – herd
- oriole – aureole
- rung – wrung
- ant – aunt
- council – counsel
- sac – sack
- wear – where – ware
- links – lynx
- clew – clue
- wave – waive
- so – sow – sew
- moose – mousse
- seller – cellar
- bawled – bald – balled
- ware – wear – where
- cops – copse
- or – ore – oar
- toe – tow
- bussed – bust
- mien – mean
- brood – brewed
- correspondence – correspondents
- shoot – chute
- leach – leech
- lumbar – lumber
- pekoe – picot
- palate – palette – pallet
- he’ll – heal – heel
- cited – sided – sighted
- lapps – laps – lapse
- hoes – hose
- quire – choir
- hurts – hertz
- jell – gel
- throws – throes
- prays – preys – praise
- foul – fowl
- sloe – slow
- frieze – frees – freeze
- babble – babel
- hose – hoes
- braid – brayed
- tear – tier
- vary – very
- amend – emend
- rapped – rapt – wrapped
- cheap – cheep
- educe – adduce
- metal – mettle – meddle –
- cell – sell
- mousse – moose
- knot – not
- frees – freeze – frieze
- might – mite
- feint – faint
- wade – weighed
- low – lo
- rumor – roomer
- hoop – whoop
- loch – lock
- lets – let’s
- bait – bate
- apprise – apprize
- shone – shown
- dun – done
- caster – castor
- verses – versus
- bode – bowed
- hays – haze
- sighs – size
- wet – whet
- for – four – fore
- chord – cord – cored
- sided – sighted – cited
- crawl – kraal
- pee – pea
- pidgin – pigeon
- jim – gym
- principal – principle
- bruise – brews
- complementary –
- faun – fawn
- ax – acts
- nice – niece
- allude – elude
- click – clique
- padded – patted
- brut – brute
- wail – whale – wale
- cedar – seeder
- loot – lute
- parish – perish
- billed – build
- root – route
- flew – flu – flue
- wrap – rap
- whoa – woe
- wares – where’s – wears
- yews – use – ewes
- handmade – handmaid
- afterward – afterword
- mite – might
- raise – rays – raze
- lone – loan
- plate – plait
- grays – graze
- marc – mark
- collard – collared
- knead – kneed – need
- ducks – ducts
- blue – blew
- surf – serf
- weather – whether – wether
- coat – cote
- balm – bomb – bombe
- load – lode – lowed
- cede – seed
- thai – tie
- slough – slew – slue
- ducked – duct
- floe – flow
- mat – matte
- cereal – serial
- baa – bah
- censor – sensor
- wrote – rote
- may be – maybe
- throes – throws
- ads – adds – adz
- boar – bore
- wok – walk
- shoo – shoe
- colonel – kernel
- bass – base
- diffused – defused
- altar – alter
- bell – belle
- pigeon – pidgin
- need – knead – kneed
- saver – savor
- beach – beech
- soared – sword
- knight – night
- stake – steak
- duel – dual
- border – boarder
- jam – jamb
- team – teem
- lock – loch
- vise – vice
- adherence – adherents
- jibe – gibe
- yew – ewe – you
- eve – eave
- guilder – gilder
- apatite – appetite
- summary – summery
- matter – madder
- bore – boar
- vice – vise
- ore – oar – or
- peal – peel
- shofar – chauffeur
- navel – naval
- nay – neigh
- burro – burrow – borough
- palette – pallet – palate
- rain – reign – rein
- yore – your – you’re
- better – bettor
- cord – cored – chord
- pore – pour
- humerus – humorous
- hole – whole
- teem – team
- lichen – liken
- bullion – bouillon
- tooter – tudor – tutor
- lode – lowed – load
- intense – intents
- flair – flare
- cored – chord – cord
- preys – praise – prays
- fisher – fissure
- halve – have
- flea – flee
- retch – wretch
- pees – peas
- guessed – guest
- sear – seer – sere
- cruise – crews
- coffers – coughers
- very – vary
- pear – pair – pare
- fairy – ferry
- grisly – grizzly
- awl – all
- shear – sheer
- fate – fete
- bridal – bridle
- sell – cell
- thrown – throne
- bomb – bombe – balm
- yule – you’ll
- ceiling – sealing
- shown – shone
- hymn – him
- exceed – accede
- peas – pees
- grayed – grade
- rowed – road – rode
- vale – veil
- weave – we’ve
- slow – sloe
- lou – lieu
- lain – lane
- barren – baron
- base – bass
- see – sea
- roomer – rumor
- main – mane – maine
- latter – ladder
- choral – coral
- faint – feint
- rapper – wrapper
- eave – eve
- lowed – load – lode
- whale – wale – wail
- missed – mist
- sword – soared
- sighted – cited – sided
- spade – spayed
- air – heir – err
- fir – fur
- heroin – heroine
- weighs – ways
- hertz – hurts
- bread – bred
- way – weigh – whey
- mourning – morning
- morn – mourn
- through – threw
- meet – mete – meat
- steal – steel
- axel – axle
- continence – continents
- vane – vein – vain
- mints – mince
- leek – leak
- cote – coat
- oral – aural
- hostel – hostile
- read – red
- carol – carrel
- sheik – chic
- blew – blue
- conceded – conceited
- whether – wether – weather
- bowled – bold
- phase – faze
- won – one
- board – bored
- seam – seem
- war – wore
- bib – bibb
- veil – vale
- mil – mill
- few – phew
- tortuous – torturous
- aid – aide
- lane – lain
- wails – wales – whales
- use – ewes – yews
- outcast – outcaste
- nose – knows
- heed – he’d
- effects – affects
- guerilla – gorilla
- lien – lean
- tux – tucks
- beau – bow
- plain – plane
- baste – based
- aye – eye – i
- tow – toe
- sense – cents – scents
- fort – forte
- ruff – rough
- mule – mewl
- prey – pray
- dual – duel
- tends – tens
- we’ll – wheel
- rack – wrack
- dye – die
- marshal – martial
- canter – cantor
- new – gnu – knew
- bear – bare
- route – root
- groan – grown
- world – whirled – whorled
- away – aweigh
- ball – bawl
- coy – koi
- mary – marry – merry
- bury – berry
- fowl – foul
- pray – prey
- our – hour
- whirred – word
- complimentary
- wader – waiter
- peon – paean – paeon
- eyed – i’d
- we’ve – weave
- descent – dissent
- lie – lye
- vain – vane – vein
- roux – rue
- serial – cereal
- wore – war
- grate – great
- nice – gneiss
- mucous – mucus
- fiancé – fiancée
- mind – mined
- incite – insight
- tees – teas – tease
- soot – suit
- lade – laid
- hangar – hanger
- eke – eek
- sore – soar
- bight – bite – byte
- finish – finnish
- earn – urn
- series – ceres
- coward – cowered
- sum – some
- row – roe
- grade – grayed
- wind – wined – whined
- taught – taut
- coax – cokes
- berry – bury
- lochs – locks – lox
- born – borne
- peek – pique – peak
- none – nun
- wait – weight
- wain – wane – wayne
- grater – greater
- eight – ate
- flier – flyer
- timber – timbre
- forth – fourth
- presence – presents
- crews – cruise
- buoy – boy
- reign – rein – rain
- franc – frank
- russell – rustle
- bow – bough
- rouse – rows
- clamber – clammer – clamor
- crepe – crape
- lax – lacks
- miner – minor
- tic – tick
- tope – taupe
- cruel – crewel
- sun – son
- wether – weather – whether
- surge – serge
- passed – past
- he’d – heed
- horse – hoarse
- claque – clack
- two – to – too
- coughers – coffers
- pale – pail
- scents – sense – cents
- break – brake
- adds – adz – ads
- dyeing – dying
- seas – sees – seize
- taupe – tope
- bold – bowled
- loath – loathe
- holey – holy – wholly
- taut – taught
- oar – or – ore
- crewel – cruel
- grease – greece
- while – wile
- dissent – descent
- wined – whined – wind
- tort – torte
- check – czech
- toad – toed – towed
- night – knight
- rued – rude
- owed – ode
- foe – faux
- cole – coal
- eyes – ayes
- stationary – stationery
- hall – haul
- the – thee
- knew – new – gnu
- cash – cache
- complacent – complaisant
- your – you’re – yore
- to – too – two
- hoe – ho
- sane – seine
- lays – laze – leis
- cast – caste
- cause – caws
- residence – residents
- course – coarse
- always – all ways
- complement – compliment
- sacks – sax
- utter – udder
- hail – hale
- waiter – wader
- slew – slue – slough
- feat – feet
- rigger – rigor
- we – wee
- curser – cursor
- it’s – its
- liken – lichen
- gnu – knew – new
- gored – gourd
- pause – paws
- ducts – ducks
- boarder – border
- adduce – educe
- gel – jell
- climb – clime
- lacks – lax
- clause – claws
- whacks – wax
- lends – lens
- beech – beach
- lo – low
- coop – coupe
- nap – knap
- axes – axis
- theirs – there’s
- chance – chants
- rheum – room
- room – rheum
- lead – led
- sioux – sue
- i’d – eyed
- gate – gait
- missile – missal
- week – weak
- trader – traitor
- mourn – morn
- meatier – meteor
- witch – which
- handsome – hansom
- there’s – theirs
- where – ware – wear
- bloc – block
- ate – eight
- arc – ark
- woe – whoa
- balled – bawled – bald
- knickers – nickers
- valence – valance
- grill – grille
- sync – sink
- sole – soul
- ail – ale
- no – know
- mail – male
- rows – rose
- reek – wreak
- wheel – we’ll
- calendar – calender
- byte – bight – bite
- boy – buoy
- fill – phil
- brews – bruise
- bare – bear
- cheep – cheap
- gene – jean
- flour – flower
- pedal – peddle – petal
- corps – core
- great – grate
- bask – basque
- tutor – tooter – tudor
- pair – pare – pear
- flow – floe
- perish – parish
- right – rite – write
- pros – prose
- bred – bread
- band – banned
- wreak – reek
- roe – row
- fete – fate
- pew – pugh
- queue – cue
- beer – bier
- paste – paced
- koi – coy
- eluded – alluded
- have – halve
- hale – hail
- fax – facts
- tacked – tact
- hire – higher
- mist – missed
- knows – nose
- idle – idol – idyll
- leak – leek
- sensor – censor
- serge – surge
- bolder – boulder
- coral – choral
- bazaar – bizarre
- wood – would
- sere – sear – seer
- sax – sacks
- tied – tide
- hoarse – horse
- gilt – guilt
- tide – tied
- cache – cash
- hart – heart
- hey – hay
- scull – skull
- draft – draught
- wretch – retch
- pilate – pilot
- guilt – gilt
- sachet – sashay
- gofer – gopher
- tee – tea
- mown – moan
- cession – session
- chews – choose
- pleas – please
- wont – want
- higher – hire
- sari – sorry
- tax – tacks
- tern – turn
- days – daze
- owe – oh
- per – purr
- whine – wine
- liar – lier – lyre
- hi – high
- skull – scull
- lynx – links
- tier – tear
- choir – quire
- piece – peace
- gnome – nome
- affected – effected
- find – fined
- illicit – elicit
- coup – coo
- want – wont
- ways – weighs
- nun – none
- i – aye – eye
- lox – lochs – locks
- caddie – caddy
- coo – coup
- sent – cent – scent
- maze – maize
- brays – braise
- which – witch
- stair – stare
- muse – mews
- mowed – mode
- sew – so – sow
- fair – fare
- rue – roux
- but – butt
- literal – littoral
- basil – basal
- callous – callus
- terry – tarry
- cokes – coax
- rome – roam
- marry – merry – mary
- coupe – coop
- you – yew – ewe
- session – cession
- mark – marc
- lute – loot
- whir – were
- nickers – knickers
- you’re – yore – your
- ad – add
- gail – gale
- straight – strait
- birth – berth
- sweet – suite
- foregone – forgone
- troop – troupe
- edition – addition
- gorilla – guerilla
- ayes – eyes
- precedence – precedents
- pier – peer
- allusion – illusion
- facts – fax
- seed – cede
- signet – cygnet
- walk – wok
- gait – gate
- immanent – imminent
- bizarre – bazaar
- thyme – time
- bale – baal – bail
- exercise – exorcise
- hear – here
- towed – toad – toed
- plane – plain
- rabbet – rabbit
- lieu – lou
- made – maid
- premier – premiere
- sleight – slight
- consonance – consonants
- deign – dane
- braise – brays
- impassable – impassible
- bowed – bode
- prints – prince
- disburse – disperse
- canapé – canopy
- metal
- missal – missile
- wrapped – rapped – rapt
- must – mussed
- whoop – hoop
- stayed – staid
- roam – rome
- gneiss – nice
- aloud – allowed
- bin – been
- levee – levy
- wrack – rack
- meat – meet – mete
- fryer – friar
- waist – waste
- tie – thai
- pare – pear – pair
- flyer – flier
- road – rode – rowed
- would – wood
- duct – ducked
- told – tolled
- conformation
- wane – wayne – wain
- quince – quints
- greece – grease
- aerial – ariel
- gild – guild
- suede – swayed
- turn – tern
- you’ll – yule
- teas – tease – tees
- bootie – booty
- bawl – ball
- lessen – lesson
- eyelet – islet
- hair – hare
- wales – whales – wails
- ring – wring
- cypress – cyprus
- praise – prays – preys
- addition – edition
- aural – oral
- all – awl
- slay – sleigh
- throne – thrown
- oh – owe
- creak – creek
- yoke – yolk
- ceres – series
- rigor – rigger
- jean – gene
- marten – martin
- baal – bail – bale
- wholly – holey – holy
- rest – wrest
- straightened – straitened
- medal – metal – mettle –
- baited – bated
- gilder – guilder
- greater – grater
- madder – matter
- size – sighs
- wale – wail – whale
- elude – allude
- tea – tee
- sealing – ceiling
- cain – cane
- rode – rowed – road
- cozen – cousin
- mussed – must
- rude – rued
- rite – write – right
- coulee – coolie
- weak – week
- not – knot
- nave – knave
- flocks – phlox
- purveyed – pervade
- borough – burro – burrow
- wrung – rung
- coarser – courser
- bouillon – bullion
- nit – knit
- pi – pie
- gibe – jibe
- nock – knock
- craft – kraft
- leech – leach
- waive – wave
- paean – paeon – peon
- sail – sale
- illusion – allusion
- son – sun
- mood – mooed
- lye – lie
- aisle – isle – i’ll
- tarry – terry
- soled – sold
- courser – coarser
- pallet – palate – palette
- ark – arc
- wile – while
- cymbal – symbol
- based – baste
- die – dye
- tulle – tool
- pie – pi
- fold – foaled
- illusive – allusive – elusive
- urn – earn
- auger – augur
- accede – exceed
- role – roll
- mote – moat
- heel – he’ll – heal
- gamble – gambol
- review – revue
- islet – eyelet
- mete – meat – meet
- knight – night
- stare – stair
- bad – bade
- seer – sere – sear
- clique – click
- herd – heard
- seine – sane
- pea – pee
- pall – paul
- dew – do – due
- pain – pane
- overdo – overdue
- neigh – nay
- site – cite – sight
- medal
- lyre – liar – lier
- knave – nave
- cents – scents – sense
- pugh – pew
- whined – wind – wined
- defused – diffused
- errant – arrant
- undo – undue
