List of Homophones

Homophones are words that have the same sound but different meanings (and may or may not have different spellings).

The words are grouped by vowel and rhyming sounds.

Sound: O
oh/oweboy/buoy
bow/beau
doe/dough
flow/floe
ho/hoe
lo/low
know/no
roe/row
sew/so
slow/sloe
throw/throe
toe/tow
whoa/woe
Sound: Och
broach/brooch
Sound: Od
bode/bowed
load/lode/lowed
mode/mowed
ode/owed
road/rode/rowed
toad/toed/towed
Sound: OI
roil/royal
Sound: Ok
yolk/yoke
Sound: Ol
boll/bole/bowl
cole/coal/kohl
hole/whole
holy/holey/wholly
pole/poll
role/roll
sol/sole/soul/Seoul
tole/toll
bold/bowled
hold/holed
sold/souled/soled
told/tolled
Sound: Om
comb/combe
roam/Rome
Sound: On
groan/grown
loan/lone
moan/mown
shone/shown
sone/sewn/sown
throne/thrown
Sound: Or
boar/bore/Boer
for/fore/four
forward/foreword
oar/or/ore/o'er
poor/pore/pour
soar/sore
your/you're/yore
board/bored
gourd/gored
hoard/horde/whored
sword/soared
coarse/course
hoarse/horse
soars/sores
forth/fourth
born/borne
Sound: Ot
mote/moat
rote/wrote
Sound: Otch
brooch/broach
Sound: Oz
hose/hoes
knows/nose/(noes/nos)
rows/rose/roes

Sound: a[ks]
tacks/tax
Sound: ach
bach/batch
catch/ketch
Sound: ad
ad/add
Sound: ak
acclimation/acclamation
rack/wrack
sac/sack
Sound: al
palette/pallet
pall/pol/Paul
Sound: am
dam/damn
jam/jamb
lam/lamb
Sound: an
cannon/canon
canvas/canvass
manner/manor
band/banned
ant/aunt
cant/can't
Sound: ap
capital/capitol
rap/wrap
rapper/wrapper
rapping/wrapping
rapped/wrapped
Sound: ar
aerial/Ariel
barren/baron
heir/air/ere/err
heirs/airs/errs
bare/bear
fair/fare
(fairy/faery)/ferry
hair/hare
(carat/karat)/caret/carrot
pair/pear/pare
stair/stare
tear/tare
there/their/they're
theirs/there's
where/wear/ware/weir
marry/merry/Mary
Sound: a[sh]
cache/cash
Sound: ast
cast/caste
Sound: at
mat/(matte/matt)/Matt
Sound: av
have/halve
Sound: az
ascent/assent

Sound: e[ch]
retch/wretch
Sound: ed
bread/bred
led/lead
medal/meddle
pedal/peddle
red/read
Sound: ek
reck/wreck
Sound: el
cell/sell
cellar/seller
Sound: en
cent/sent/scent
cents/scents/sense
censer/censor/sensor
centaury/Centaurii
dense/dents
presence/presents
residence/residents
Sound: ep
step/steppe
Sound: ery
berry/bury/Barry
vary/very
Sound: es
desert/dessert
rest/wrest
Sound: ether
weather/wether/whether
Sound: et
wet/whet
metal/mettle

Sound: ib
nibble/nybble
Sound: i[ch]
witch/which
Sound: ig
rigor/rigger
Sound: ik
accede/exceed
accept/except
Sound: il
chilly/(chili/chilli)/Chile
build/billed
Sound: im
cymbal/symbol
him/hymn
immanent/imminent
limb/limn
Sound: in
in/inn
principle/principal
mince/mints
prince/prints
Sound: i[ng]
links/lynx
ring/wring
sink/(sync/synch)
ringer/wringer
Sound: ir
dear/deer
hear/here
peer/pier
sear/seer/sere
shear/sheer
tear/tier
cereal/serial
serious/Sirius
Sound: is
discrete/discreet
dissent/descent
scissel/scissile/Sicel/sisal/sisel/sissle/syssal
Sound: it
whit/wit
its/it's

Sound: o
paw/pa
profit/prophet
Sound: od
odd/awed
sod/sawed
Sound: ok
bloc/block
balk/Bach
chalk/chock
(calk/caulk)/cock
doc/dock
hawk/hock
(loch/lough)/lock
nock/knock
roc/rock
stalk/stock
Sound: ol
all/awl
all/oil
altar/alter
ball/bawl
call/caul
hall/haul
mall/maul
bald/balled/bawled
Sound: on
awn/on
fawn/faun
fond/fawned
dawn/don/Dawn/Don
Sound: or
aureole/oriole
chord/cord/cored
(sergeant/serjeant)/Sargent
war/wore
bard/barred
ward/warred

Sound: orn
mourn/morn
warn/worn
Sound: ar
(marshal/marshall)/martial
arc/ark
hart/heart
Sound: at
aught/ought
caught/cot
knot/naught/not
rot/wrought
taught/taut/tot
daughter/dotter
Sound: oz
paws/pause
claws/clause/Claus[Santa]

Sound: oo
blew/blue/bleu
cue/queue
cues/queues
dew/do/due
flew/flue/flu
lieu/loo/Lou
knew/gnu/new
shoo/shoe
slue/slew/slough
threw/(through/thru)
to/too/(two
who/whoo
Sound: ood
brood/brewed
crude/crewed
dude/dewed
mood/mooed
rood/rude/rued
Sound: ool
dual/duel
Sound: oom
gloom/glume
toom/tomb
Sound: oon
lune/loon
Sount: oop
droop/drupe
troop/troupe
Sound: oot
chute/shoot
lute/loot
suit/soot
Sound: ooz
bruise/brews
cruise/crews/cruse
choose/chews
ruse/rues
whose/who's

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