Homophone

Homophones are words that sound the same as another word but have a different meaning, and often a different spelling.

Examples include:
 one, won
 pail, pale
 fore, four, for
 it's, its
 there, their, they're
 Knight, night
 which, witch
 pore, pour
 pear, pair, pare
 see, sea, C
 high, hi
 wear, where
 hare, hair
 air, heir, err
 whether, weather
 too, to, two
 ate, eight
 no, know
 by, buy, bye
 flour, flower
 right, write
 be, bee
 week, weak
 rains, reins
 higher, hire
 fare, fair
 prince, prints
 pause, paws
 clause, Claus, claws

Related pages
 Homonym
 Homograph
 Polysemy
 Synonym -a different word for the same or very similar meaning

Category:Words

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