Homophones
What are homophones?
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but has a different meaning. Homophones normally have different spellings but sometimes they can have the same spelling.
Example:
Bat / bat – same pronunciation but different meaning. Bat can mean an animal which can fly or an object used to play sport.
What are some common examples?
Here are 20 common homophones in English. For each example, the two words have the same pronunciation but the words have a different meaning.
- Ate / Eight
- Be / Bee
- Bare / Bear
- Beat / Beet
- Blue / Blew
- Board / Bored
- Cell / Sell
- Cent / Scent
- Cheap / Cheap
- Dye / Die
- Flower / Flour
- Foul / Fowl
- Gait / Gate
- Heal / Heel
- Higher / Hire
- Idle / Idol
- Made / Maid
- One / Won
- Pair / Pear
- Rap / Wrap
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