colonel, kernel at Homophone.com colonel :: noun A commissioned rank in the U.S. Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps that is above lieutenant colonel and below brigadier general. :: noun One who holds this rank or a similar rank in another military organization. :: noun An honorary nonmilitary title awarded by some states of the United States. kernel A grain or seed, as of a cereal grass, enclosed in a husk. :: noun The inner, usually edible seed of a nut or fruit stone. :: noun The most material and central part; the core: "that hard kernel of gaiety that never breaks” ( Evelyn Waugh). Definitions from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition and Wordnik. Share colonel, kernel Facebook Twitter Email About Homophones Homophones (literally "same sound") are usually defined as words that share the same pronunciation, regardless of how they are spelled. If they are spelled the same then they are also homographs (and homonyms); if they are spelled differently then they are also heterographs (literally "different writing"). Random homophones Get in touch! We're always discovering and adding new homophones to Homophone.com...

In fact, we just added these homophones about 2 years ago: moo, moue . Many new additions are thanks to contributions from users like you. If you think we're missing any homophones, let us know by emailing me at al@homophone.com You can also visit my main business at aafinancial.com Suber & Thorpe, "An English Homophone Dictionary" A.L.P. Thorpe , Classics Department , Earlham College We're too busy to continue updating this page. Please use and enjoy it as is. For the best current homophone sites, run a Google search . Peter Suber and Liffey Thorpe. Homophones are words of the same language that are pronounced alike even if they differ in spelling, meaning, or origin, such as "pair" and "pear". Homophones may also be spelled alike, as in "bear" (the animal) and "bear" (to carry). But this list consists only of homophones that are not spelled alike. Homonym is a somewhat looser term than homophone, sometimes referring to all homophones and only homophones, and sometimes referring to the subset of homophones that are spelled alike.

In the entries below, the members of each homophonic set are listed in alphabetical order. Each set is entered only once, at its alphabetically first member. There is no cross-reference unless the initial letters of the members differ. For example, the pair "knot, not" is listed under "knot". Under "not" one finds not (see knot) The diamond bullet indicates a cross-reference. But the pair "shear, sheer" is listed only under "shear" with no further cross-reference, because the members begin with the same letter. Occasionally we include a short definition of an unusual word to assure the reader that scribal error is not to blame for listing e.g. apatite or sics. When singular homophone nouns are also homophones in the plural, this is indicated in parentheses, e.g. ad (-s), add (-s), adze. Similarly, when homophone verbs remain homophones when inflected in the third person singular, this is indicated in parentheses, e.g. accept (-s), except (-s). The same indication is used when one member of the pair is a noun and the other is a verb, e.g. poor, pore (-s), pour (-s).

These variations do not receive separate listings, nor are other inflected forms, such as -ed or -ing, or possessives, listed at all. We do include obsolete words when we know of them, such as dain in the pair, dain, deign. But we have made no systematic search for them, and there are undoubtedly very many not yet in our list. This list deliberately omits the following types of homophones. As noted above, we omit homophones that are spelled alike, e.g. bear, bear. We omit non-English words, e.g. oui, we; nein, nine. We omit non-English words even if they are often heard in English conversation, perhaps as part of canned phrases. Hence we omit carte, as in a la carte, from the list cart, kart. We omit proper nouns, e.g. Wales, whales; peat, Pete. We omit letters of the alphabet, e.g. t, tea, tee. We omit hyphenated compounds. Consequently there are two reasons to exclude the triple, fillip, fill-up, Phillip. We omit acronyms that have come to be pronounced as words, e.g.

WACS in WACS, wacks, wax, whacks. We omit pairs of words that, when pronounced together, sound like some other single word, e.g. a cord, accord. We stick to this rule even when the relation between a given pair and a given single word is not accidental, e.g. back ache, backache. We have included standard contractions, hence aisle, I'll, but not contrived contractions even if they could arise in conversation, such as eye'll (as in "My eye'll be on you"). We omit words which differ in spelling from other words only in the use of a possessive apostrophe, e.g. homes, home's. However, when an apostrophe indicates a standard contraction, we will include the pair, e.g. its, it's. We have omitted common mispronunciations even though, by their nature, they will be heard in conversation. This affects pairs such as taken, takin'. Words that often succeed other words are frequently pronounced as virtual suffixes. But even though oak and maple is pronounced oak'n maple, we did not let this justify including the pair oaken, oak'n. We omit spelling variations, e.g.

analyse, analyze; curb, kerb; glamor, glamour; plough, plow, racket, racquet; theater, theatre. It is often a nice question, however, when a spelling variation has become a new word. Manikin is a spelling variation of mannequin; but the former now denotes a bird and the latter a clothing dummy. They are now distinct words, and are listed as homophones below. By contrast, manakin is a spelling variation of manikin, with the same denotation; in our view it is not an independent word and is not listed below. Dialectal variation poses a serious problem. If we included all pairs that are pronounced alike by speakers of some English dialect, our job would never end. But the only alternatives seem to be to draw an arbitrary line, including only "major" dialects, or to include none as if there were a single "standard" pronunciation of English. Despite the drawbacks of the last-named course, we follow other dictionaries in adopting it. We use standard English pronunciation in the United States.

Hence, with apologies to Brooklynites we omit coil, curl; with apologies to Yankees we omit part, pot; with apologies to Hoosiers we omit spatial, special; and with apologies to Southerners we omit lord, lowered. Some questionable cases, where even the "standard" pronunciation contains variation, are indicated by "(?)". We have attempted to keep these cases to a minimum. When the variation is produced by sloppiness rather than by dialect (a distinction difficult to maintain), e.g. bobbin, bobbing, odder, otter, wet, whet, then we have generally included them with the qualifying "(?)". Our criterion here is whether the pronunciation is commonly heard, not whether it is already recognized as a secondary, acceptable pronunciation in another dictionary. Occasionally dialectal variation produces what might be called "disjunctive homophones". Some people pronounce route and rout alike, while others pronounce route and root alike. Our solution was to include both the qualified pairs root, route (?), and rout, route (?). We omit the question marks when a word simply has two acceptable pronunciations and a homophone with each, for example fail, faille, and fill, faille.

Despite the preceding rules, if a group of homophones already makes the list, then an "ineligible" member will be added in brackets, provided that the ineligible member is an English word. Hence we find wacks, wax, whacks [WACS] because the first three members qualify on their own; but we do not find whales [Wales] because without the ineligible term there is no independent listing. Before we stopped updating this page, we received comments and contributions from many readers. We thank Scott Alexander, Carleen Cook, Tim Heiner, Michael W. Judd, Marc Kamens, Hank Langknecht, Vicki Newby, Gordon Schomberg, David Whigham, and John Williams for their contributions. Homophone List Homophone List Last Up date: 2013 January 29 Recent changes: Cleaned 2005 December 1 version, made end stuff not italics. Added link to a page with an in-text sample. The list has nearly 1,000 Homophone pairs. Here is a sample of the results of my program that exchanged homophones from this list.

I started making this list on 2004-04-11 at 19:34:11 It has at least one pair for every letter of the alphabet. It is a alphabetized text file. Each line is a pair of homophones. The first word is alphabetically before the second. I use an assembly program, I wrote, to make two lines out of each line the second line being just the first with the words reversed. (That program also forces the initial letter of each word to be upper case.) I then sort the expanded file on the first letter of each line to make what the Word Exchange program actually uses. The reasons for this are: 1. It keeps the "main" file half as long. 2. Corrections don't have to be made in two places. The following list does not include more than a pair of Homophones. For example it does not contain the triple "to, too, two". Further, if the word is on the right it will not be on the left and visa versa. Hopefully, no word appears twice in the following table.

In some cases this may make a bit difficult to find the homophone, for example there is a line: "know no" under the k's but you will not find "no" under the n's. I have numbered the following entries. If you find errors or want to make additions, the numbers should allow easier identification of the problem or suggestion. Lastly, if you would like just the list without the numbers contact me at the address below.

0 acts axe 1 ad add 2 adds ads 3 adherence adherents 4 admittance admittants 5 adolescence adolescents 6 aerie airy 7 affect effect 8 affects effects 9 aid aide 10 aides aids 11 ail ale 12 ails ales 13 air heir 14 airs heirs 15 all awl 16 allowed aloud 17 allude elude 18 alludes eludes 19 altar alter 20 altars alters 21 amend emend 22 amends emends 23 analyst annalist 24 analysts annalists 25 ant aunt 26 ante anti 27 ants aunts 28 apatite appetite 29 apatites appetites 30 appose oppose 31 apposes opposes 32 arc ark 33 arcs arks 34 arrant errant 35 ascent assent 36 ascents assents 37 assistance assistants 38 ate eight 39 aught ought 40 away aweigh 41 awful offal 42 axes axis 43 bail bale 44 bails bales 45

 bait bate 46 baits bates 47 baize bays 48 bald bawled 49 ball bawl 50 balls bawls 51 balm bomb 52 balms bombs 53 band banned 54 bans banns 55 bard barred 56 bare bear 57 bares bears 58 bares bears 59 bark barque 60 barks barques 61 baron barren 62 barons barrens 63 barrel beryl 64 base bass 65 based baste 66 bask basque 67 baud bawd 68 bay bey 69 bazaar bizarre 70 be bee 71 beach beech 72 beaches beeches 73 beat beet 74 beats beets 75 beau bow 76 been bin 77 beer bier 78 beers biers 79 beetle betel 80 bell belle 81 belligerence belligerents 82 bells belles 83 benzene benzine 84 berg burg 85 berger burger 86 bergle burgle 8

7 berries buries 88 berry bury 89 berth birth 90 berths births 91 better bettor 92 billed build 93 bird burred 94 bite byte 95 blend blende 96 blends blendes 97 blew blue 98 bloc block 99 boar bore 100 board bored 101 boarder border 102 boarders borders 103 boars bores 104 bocks box 105 bode bowed 106 bogie bogy 107 bold bowled 108 bolder boulder 109 bole bowl 110 boles bowls 111 boos booze 112 bootie booty 113 born borne 114 borough burrow 115 boroughs burrows 116 boy buoy 117 boys buoys 118 brae bray 119 braid brayed 120 brain brane 121 brains branes 122 braise braze 123 braises brazes 124 brake break 125 brakes breaks

 126 breach breech 127 breaches breeches 128 bread bred 129 brede breed 130 bredes breeds 131 brewed brood 132 brews bruise 133 bridal bridle 134 broom brougham 135 brooms broughams 136 brows browse 137 brr burr 138 buccal buckle 139 burger burgher 140 burgers burghers 141 burro burrow 142 burros burrows 143 bus buss 144 buses busses 145 bussed bust 146 but butt 147 buts butts 148 buy by 149 byre buyer 150 byres buyers 151 cache cash 152 cachou cashew 153 cachous cashews 154 calendar calender 155 calendars calenders 156 calk caulk 157 calks caulks 158 call cawl 159 callous callus 160 calls c

awls 161 cam camb 162 cams cambs 163 can't cant 164 canape canopy 165 canapes canopies 166 cane cain 167 cannon canon 168 cannons canons 169 canter cantor 170 canters cantors 171 canvas canvass 172 capital capitol 173 carie carry 174 caries carries 175 carol carrel 176 carols carrels 177 carrot karat 178 carrots karats 179 cart kart 180 carts karts 181 cask casque 182 casks casques 183 cast caste 184 caster castor 185 casts castes 186 cause caws 187 cedar seeder 188 cedars seeders 189 cede seed 190 cedes seeds 191 ceiling sealing 192 cell sell 193 cellar seller 194 cellars sellers 195 cells sells 196 census senses 1

97 cent sent 198 cents sense 199 cereal serial 200 cereals serials 201 cession session 202 chance chants 203 chard charred 204 chary cherry 205 chased chaste 206 cheap cheep 207 chews choose 208 chic sheik 209 chili chilly 210 choir quire 211 choirs quires 212 choler collar 213 choral coral 214 chorale corral 215 chorales corrals 216 chorals corals 217 chord cord 218 christmas x-mass 219 chronical chronicle 220 chute shoot 221 chutes shoots 222 cirrus serous 223 cite sight 224 cited sighted 225 cites sights 226 clack claque 227 clacks claques 228 clause claws 229 clew clue 230 clews clues 231 click clique 232 clicks cliques 233 climb cl

ime 234 close clothes 235 coarse course 236 coat cote 237 coats cotes 238 coax cokes 239 coffer cougher 240 coffers coughers 241 coign coin 242 coigns coins 243 collard collared 244 colonel kernel 245 colonels kernels 246 come cum 247 competence competents 248 complacence complaisance 249 complacent complaisant 250 complement compliment 251 complementary complimentary 252 complements compliments 253 continence continents 254 coo coup 255 coop coupe 256 coops coupes 257 coos coups 258 cops copse 259 coquet coquette 260 core corps 261 correspondence correspondents 262 cosher kosher 263 cosign cosine 264 cosigns cosines 265 coulee coolie 266 council counsel 267 councillor counselor 268 councillors counselors 269 councils

 counsels 270 cousin cozen 271 cousins cozens 272 coward cowered 273 crape crepe 274 crapes crepes 275 creak creek 276 creaks creeks 277 crewed crude 278 crewel cruel 279 crews cruise cruse 280 cubical cubicle 281 cubit qubit 282 cue queue 283 cues queues 284 currant current 285 currants currents 286 curser cursor 287 cursers cursors 288 cygnet signet 289 cygnets signets 290 cymbal symbol 291 cymbals symbols 292 dain deign 293 dam damn 294 days daze 295 dear deer 296 deem deme 297 deems demes 298 delinquence delinquents 299 dense dents 300 dental dentil 301 dependence dependents 302 depravation deprivation 303 deprav

ations deprivations 304 descendant descendent 305 descent dissent 306 descents dissents 307 desert dessert 308 deserts desserts 309 deviance deviants 310 devisor divisor 311 dew do 312 dewed dude 313 dews dues 314 die dye 315 died dyed 316 dies dyes 317 dine dyne 318 dire dyer 319 disburse disperse 320 disburses disperses 321 discreet discrete 322 discussed disgust 323 dissidence dissidents 324 doe dough 325 draft draught 326 drafts draughts 327 dray drey 328 droop drupe 329 dual duel 330 ducked duct 331 dyeing dying 332 earn urn 333 earns urns 334 elicit illicit 335 emerge immerge 336 emerges immerges 337 eminent immanent 338 ensure insure 339 epic epoch 34

0 epics epochs 341 equivalence equivalents 342 errors heirs 343 ewe you 344 ewes use 345 exercise exorcise 346 exercises exorcises 347 existence existents 348 extravagance extravagants 349 eyed I'd 350 eyelet islet 351 eyelets islets 352 facts fax 353 fain feign 354 faint feint 355 fainted feinted 356 faints feints 357 fair fare 358 fairy ferry 359 faun fawn 360 fauns fawns 361 fay fey 362 faze phase 363 fazes phases 364 feat feet 365 fends fens 366 fern firn 367 ferule ferrule 368 feudal futile 369 file phial 370 files phials 371 fill faille 372 filter philter 373 finally finely 374 find fined 375 fir fur 37

6 firs furs 377 fisher fissure 378 fishers fissures 379 flacks flax 380 flair flare 381 flairs flares 382 flea flee 383 fleas flees 384 flew flu 385 flour flower 386 flours flowers 387 for four 388 forego forgo 389 foregoes forgoes 390 foreword forward 391 formally formerly 392 forth fourth 393 foul fowl 394 fouls fowls 395 frees freeze 396 fussed fust 397 gage gauge 398 gait gate 399 gaits gates 400 gamble gambol 401 gambles gambols 402 gang gangue 403 gays gaze 404 gel jell 405 gels jells 406 gene jean 407 genes jeans 408 gibe jibe 409 gibes jibes 410 gild guild 411 gilt guilt 

412 glair glare 413 glairs glares 414 gluttonous glutinous 415 gnaw naw 416 gneiss nice 417 gnomic nomic 418 gnu new 419 gnus news 420 goaled gold 421 gored gourd 422 gorilla guerrilla 423 grade grayed 424 grate great 425 grays graze 426 groan grown 427 grocer grosser 428 guarantee guaranty 429 guest guessed 430 guide guyed 431 guise guys 432 gyre jire 433 hail hale 434 hails hales 435 hair hare 436 hairs hares 437 hairy harry 438 hall haul 439 halls hauls 440 halve have 441 hardy hearty 442 hart heart 443 harts hearts 444 hay hey 445 hays haze 446 he'd heed 447 heal heel 

448 heals heels 449 hear here 450 heard herd 451 hertz hurts 452 hew hue 453 hews hues 454 hi high 455 higher hire 456 him hymn 457 ho hoe 458 hoar whore 459 hoarse horse 460 hoes hose 461 hold holed 462 hole whole 463 holes wholes 464 holey holy 465 hostel hostile 466 hour our 467 hours ours 468 i eye 469 i'll aisle 470 idle idol 471 idles idols 472 in inn 473 incidence incidents 474 incite insight 475 independence independents 476 indict indite 477 indicts indites 478 indigence indigents 479 indiscreet indiscrete 480 innocence innocents 481 instance instants 482 intense intents 483 it's its 484 jam jamb 485 jams jambs 4

86 jinks jinx 487 key quay 488 keys quays 489 knapp nap 490 knave nave 491 knaves naves 492 knead need 493 kneads needs 494 kneel neal 495 knew new 496 knick nick 497 knicker nicker 498 knickers nickers 499 knicks nicks 500 knight night 501 knights nights 502 knit nit 503 knits nits 504 knob nob 505 knobs nobs 506 knock nock 507 knocks nocks 508 knot not 509 know no 510 knows nose 511 lacks lax 512 ladder latter 513 lade laid 514 lain lane 515 lair layer 516 lairs layers 517 lam lamb 518 lama llama 519 laps lapse 520 lase lays 521 laser lazar 522 lay ley 523 laze

 leis 524 lea lee 525 leach leech 526 leaches leeches 527 lead led 528 leader liter 529 leaders liters 530 leaf lief 531 leak leek 532 leaks leeks 533 lean lien 534 leans liens 535 leased least 536 lends lens 537 lessen lesson 538 lesser lessor 539 levee levy 540 liable libel 541 liar lyre 542 liars lyres 543 lichen liken 544 licker liquor 545 lickerish licorice 546 lie lye 547 lies lyes 548 lightening lightning 549 limb limn 550 limbs limns 551 linch lynch 552 links lynx 553 lo low 554 load lode 555 loads lodes 556 loan lone 557 locks lox 558 loop loupe 559 loot lute 560

 loots lutes 561 macks max 562 madder matter 563 made maid 564 mail male 565 mails males 566 main mane 567 maize maze 568 mall maul 569 malls mauls 570 manner manor 571 mantle mantel 572 marchal martial 573 mare mayor 574 mares mayors 575 marquee marquis 576 marshal marshall 577 marshals marshalls 578 marten martin 579 maser mazer 580 mask masque 581 massed mast 582 mat matte 583 mead meed 584 meat meet 585 meats meets 586 meddle metal 587 meddler medlar 588 meddlers medlars 589 meddles metals 590 men's mends 591 mewl mule 592 mews muse 593 mho mow 594 micks mix 595 middy midi

 596 might mite 597 mil mill 598 mild miled 599 millenary millinery 600 mince mints 601 mind mined 602 miner minor 603 miners minors 604 minks minx 605 missal missile 606 missed mist 607 missed mist 608 moan mown 609 mode mowed 610 mold mould 611 molds moulds 612 mood mooed 613 moor more 614 moose mousse 615 morn mourn 616 morning mourning 617 mortar morter 618 mucous mucus 619 muscle mussel 620 muscles mussels 621 mustard mustered 622 naval navel 623 nicks nix 624 none nun 625 o'er or 626 oar ore 627 oars ores 628 odder otter 629 ode owed 630 oh owe 631 one won 632 ordinance ordnance

 633 overdo overdue 634 oversea oversee 635 overseas oversees 636 paced paste 637 packed pact 638 paean peon 639 paeans peons 640 pail pale 641 pails pales 642 pain pane 643 pains panes 644 pair pear 645 pairs pears 646 palette pallet 647 palettes pallets 648 pall paul 649 parish perish 650 parities parodyies 651 parity parody 652 passable passible 653 passed past 654 patience patients 655 pause paws 656 pea pee 657 peace piece 658 peak peek 659 peaks peeks 660 peas pees 661 pedal peddle 662 pedals peddles 663 peer pier 664 peers piers 665 pence pents 666 pend penned 667 pendant pendent 668 pendants pendents 669 pends pens 67

0 penitence penitents 671 per purr 672 petit petty 673 petrel petrol 674 phosphorous phosphorus 675 pi pie 676 pica pika 677 picks pix 678 pidgin pigeon 679 pinion pinon 680 pistole pistol 681 place plaice 682 plain plane 683 plains planes 684 plaintiff plaintive 685 plait plate 686 plaits plates 687 plantar planter 688 plantars planters 689 pleas please 690 plough plow 691 ploughs plows 692 plum plumb 693 plums plumbs 694 pole poll 695 poles polls 696 politic politick 697 politics politicks 698 poor pour 699 praise prays 700 pray prey 701 prays preys 702 presence presents 703 pride pried 704 pries prize 705 prince prints 706 principal principle

 707 principals principles 708 prior pryer 709 profit prophet 710 profits prophets 711 pros prose 712 psalter salter 713 pupal pupil 714 pupals pupils 715 quarts quartz 716 quean queen 717 queans queens 718 quince quints 719 rabbet rabbit 720 rack wrack 721 radical radicle 722 radicals radicles 723 rain reign 724 rains reigns 725 raise rays 726 raiser razor 727 raises razes 728 rancor ranker 729 rap wrap 730 rapped wrapped 731 raps wraps 732 read reed 733 reads reeds 734 real reel 735 recede reseed 736 recedes reseeds 737 receipt reseat 738 receipts reseats 739 reck wreck 740 reek wreak 741 reeks wreaks 742 reference referents 74

3 rends wrens 744 residence residents 745 rest wrest 746 rests wrests 747 retch wretch 748 retches wretches 749 review revue 750 reviews revues 751 rex wrecks 752 rheum room 753 rheums rooms 754 rhyme rime 755 rhymes rimes 756 rigger rigor 757 right rite 758 righting writing 759 rights rites 760 ring wring 761 ringer wringer 762 ringers wringers 763 rings wrings 764 rise ryes 765 road rode 766 roc rock 767 rocs rocks 768 roe row 769 roil royal 770 role roll 771 roles rolls 772 rood rude 773 roomer rumor 774 roomers rumors 775 root route 776 roots routes 777 rose rows 778 rote wrote 779 rough ruff 78

0 rouse rows 781 rued rude 782 rues ruse 783 rung wrung 784 rye wry 785 sailer sailor 786 sailers sailors 787 sails sales 788 sane seine 789 saver savor 790 scene seen 791 scents sense 792 scull skull 793 sculls skulls 794 sea see 795 seam seem 796 seaman semen 797 seamed seemed 798 seams seems 799 sear seer 800 seas sees 801 seas seize 802 serf surf 803 serfs surfs 804 serge surge 805 set sett 806 sets setts 807 sew so 808 sewn sown 809 shear sheer 810 shoes shoo's 811 shone shown 812 shoo shoe 813 sic sick 814 side sighed 815 sighs size 816 sight site 817 sign sine 8

18 signs sines 819 silicon silicone 820 sink sync 821 slay sleigh 822 slays sleighs 823 sleight slight 824 sleights slights 825 slew slough 826 sloe slow 827 soar sore 828 soared sword 829 soars sores 830 socks sox 831 sold soled 832 sole soul 833 soles souls 834 some sum 835 son sun 836 sonny sunny 837 sons suns 838 soot suit 839 spade spayed 840 staff staph 841 staid stayed 842 stair stare 843 stairs stares 844 stake steak 845 stakes steaks 846 statice status 847 statices statuses 848 stationary stationery 849 steal steel 850 steals steels 851 step steppe 852 steps steppes 853 stile style 854 stiles styles 85

5 stoop stoup 856 stoops stoups 857 straight strait 858 straights straits 859 succor sucker 860 succors suckers 861 suede swayed 862 suer sewer 863 suite sweet 864 suites sweets 865 summary summery 866 sundae sunday 867 sundaes sundays 868 surplice surplus 869 surplices surpluses 870 tacet tacit 871 tack taque 872 tacked tact 873 tacks tax 874 tail tale 875 tails tales 876 talesman talisman 877 taper tapir 878 tapers tapirs 879 tare tear 880 tares tears 881 tarry terry 882 taught taut 883 taupe tope 884 tea tee 885 team teem 886 teams teems 887 teas tease 888 tends tens 889 tense tents 890 tens

er tensor 891 tern turn 892 terns turns 893 their there 894 theirs there's 895 therefor therefore 896 threw through 897 throe throw 898 throes throws 899 throne thrown 900 thyme time 901 tic tick 902 tics ticks 903 tide tied 904 tighten titan 905 timber timbre 906 to two 907 toad towed 908 tocsin toxin 909 tocsins toxins 910 toe tow 911 toes tows 912 tongue tung 913 tool tulle 914 tor tore 915 tore tour 916 tort torte 917 torts tortes 918 toughed tuft 919 tracked tract 920 trader traitor 921 traders traitors 922 tray trey 923 troop troupe 924 trooper trouper 925 troopers troupers 926 troops troupes 927 trussed

 trust 928 tucks tux 929 tune toon 930 turn tern 931 turns terns 932 udder utter 933 udders utters 934 undo undue 935 vain vein 936 valance valence 937 vale veil 938 vales veils 939 valiance valiants 940 variance variants 941 vary very 942 verses versus 943 vial vile 944 vial vile 945 vice vise 946 villain villein 947 virtu virtue 948 viscous viscus 949 wacks wax 950 wade weighed 951 wail whale 952 wain wane 953 waist waste 954 waists wastes 955 wait weight 956 waits weights 957 waive wave 958 waiver waver 959 waivers wavers 960 waives waves 961 walk wok 962 walks woks 963 watt what 964 way weigh

 965 ways weighs 966 we wee 967 we'd weed 968 we're weir 969 we've weave 970 weak week 971 wear where 972 weather whether 973 wheeled wield 974 which witch 975 whine wine 976 whines wines 977 whirled world 978 whirred word 979 whoa woe 980 whose who's 981 whys wise 982 wind wined 983 winds wins 984 wood would 985 worst wurst 986 wright write 987 wrights writes 988 yoke yolk 989 yokes yolks 990 you'll yule 991 you're your 992 zooglea zoogloea 993 zooglea zoogloea In addition to the above table there are the following which are what I call "odds" the first word may be exchanged for what follows, but not the other way around.

Or one of the words is in the above list (as part of a triple), and hence has a different exchange. Before Bee four Seas Seize Too 2 If you would like to get this list in a machinable form, I suggest you save the source for this page and delete the HTML tags. An easy task if you have a respectable text editor. I started with a Google search for "homonyms", it would have been more productive to search for "homophones". Initially, the best I could do was to work with the source from: which I got on 2004 April 4 at 7:32 AM. As of: 2013-01-29 09:50:29 the web page is quite different. The best I have found was from a web site that has the following note: An English Homophone Dictionary Homonyms, Homophones and Homographs | VocabularySpellingCity Homonyms, Homophones and Homographs Share: The standards correlation for this activity is coming soon! VocabularySpellingCity’s spelling lists will help students learn homonyms, homophones (sound-alike words), and homographs and have fun all at the same time!

Resources include printable worksheets, videos, online games, and various teaching strategies for Kindergarten through High School. Here you can customize a unique lesson to illustrate homonyms vs homophones vs homographs. Homonyms, homophones and homographs can bring confusion to even adults and teachers! VocabularySpellingCity can help anyone master these word groups. For clarity, we’ve brought them all together on one page. It makes it easier to learn the difference among the three types of words using the definitions and homonyms, homophones and homographs examples below. Homonyms One plus one is two bass = fish bow = to bend down bow = ribbon Homonyms , or multiple meaning words, are words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings. For example, bear. A bear (the animal) can bear (tolerate) very cold temperatures. The driver turned left (opposite of right) and left (departed from) the main road. Homophones , also known as sound-alike words , are words that are pronounced identically although they have different meanings and often have different spellings as well. These words are a very common source of confusion when writing.

Common examples of sets of homophones include: to, too, and two; they’re and their; bee and be; sun and son; which and witch; and plain and plane. VocabularySpellingCity is a particularly useful tool for learning to correctly use and spell the soundalike words. The toys are over there on the floor. The wind gust blew away their papers. Did they say they’re coming to my party? Homographs are words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings and are often pronounced differently as well. Some examples of homographs are: bass as in fish vs bass as in music bow as in arrow vs bow as in bending or taking a bow at the end of a performance close as in next to vs close as in shut the door desert as in dry climate vs desert as in leaving alone Currently, VocabularySpellingCity cannot distinguish between homographs, as we are unable to have two pronounciations for the exact same word. We are looking for possibilities in the future. Heteronyms or heterophones have the same spelling, different pronunciations, and different meanings. All heteronyms are homographs, but not all homographs are heteronyms. See why this concept can be so confusing to learn?

Wind: I need to wind the alarm clock so I can fly my kite in the early morning gusty wind. Record: Please record the program when they try to beat the world record for word nerdiness. Excuse: Please excuse this poor excuse for art.

List 1: to, two, one, won, be, bee, in, inn, sun, son List 2: for, four, see, sea, I, eye, meet, meat, ant, aunt 2nd Grade Homophones: List 1: toe, tow, week, weak, mane, main, tail, tale, our, hour List 2: bare, bear, so, sew, here, hear, dear, deer, grown, groan 3rd Grade Homophones: List 1: hare, hair, sail, sale, wait, weight, their, there, maid, made List 2: hole, whole, medal, metal, knight, night, fur, fir, right, write List 3: road, rode, piece, peace, cents, sense, ate, eight, threw, through 4th Grade Homophones: List 1: peak, peek, seam, seem, feat, feet, steal, steel, flea, flee List 2: male, mail, pale, pail, days, daze, rays, raise, vane, vain, vein List 3: pair, pare, pear, stair, stare, loan, lone, flour

, flower, principle, principal 5th Grade Homophones: List 1: throne, thrown, doe, dough, clothes, close, waist, waste, brake, break List 2: cent, scent, sent, wear, where, site, sight, cite, berry, bury List 3: which, witch, pedal, peddle, bored, board, sweet, suite, creek, creak 6th Grade Homophones: List 1: affect, effect, allowed, aloud, aisle, isle, I’ll, patience, patients List 2: weather, whether, accept, except, ceiling, sealing, hanger, hangar, alter, altar 7th Grade Homophones: List 1: vile, vial, wave, waive, addition, edition, horse, hoarse, manor, manner List 2: sensor, censor, bizarre, bazaar, heel, heal, carrot, carat, miner, minor 8th Grade Homophones: List 1: sole, soul, rain, reign, rein, pause, paws, wail, whale, heard, herd List 2: naval, navel, sheer, shear, air, heir, scene, seen,

 presence, presents 9th Grade Homophones: List 1: cellar, seller, allusion, illusion, capital, capitol, symbol, cymbal, compliment, complement List 2: boarder, border, council, counsel, genes, jeans, bridal, bridle, incite, insight List 3: whine, wine, mall, maul, muscle, mussel, slay, sleigh, course, coarse 10th Grade Homophones: List 1: discreet, discrete, loot, lute, currant, current, profit, prophet, borough, burrow 11th Grade Homophones: List 1: dual, duel, cereal, serial, idle, idol, faint, feint, wrote, rote List 2: baron, barren, birth, berth, knead, need, mantle, mantel, leased, least 12th Grade Homophones:

Question: What word is a homophone of kernel?
Answer: Colonel