Below are some English words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings:
- ad/add
- affect/effect
- ail/ale
- aisle/I'll
- ant/aunt
- ate/eight
- be/bee
- beach/beech
- beat/beet
- bald/bawled
- bare/bear
- base/bass
- billed/build
- blew/blue
- by/bye/buy
- cell/sell
- cent/scent/sent
- chili/chilly
- close/clothes
- days/daze
- dear/deer
- do/dew/due
- die/dye
- died/dyed
- doe/dough
- earn/urn
- ewe/yew/you
- facts/fax
- fare/fair
- fairy/ferry
- feat/feet
- fir/fur
- flea/flee
- flew/flu/flue
- flour/flower
- for/fore/four
- forth/fourth
- foul/fowl
- groan/grown
- guessed/guest
- gym/Jim
- hair/hare
- hairy/Harry
- hall/haul
- halve/have
- he'd/heed
- heal/heel
- hear/here
- heard/herd
- hi/high
- him/hymn
- hour/our
- idle/idol
- in/inn
- it's/its
- knead/need
- know/no
- knows/nose
- lay/lei
- lead/led
- leak/leek
- lends/lens
- lessen/lesson
- lie/lye
- links/lynx
- loan/lone
- lochs/locks/lox
- made/maid
- mail/male
- main/mane
- maize/maze
- mall/maul
- manner/manor
- massed/mast
- meat/meet
- missed/mist
- moan/mown
- moose/mousse
- morning/mourning
- muscle/mussel
- navel/naval
- none/nun
- not/knot
- oar/or/ore
- oh/owe
- one/won
- overdo/overdue
- pail/pale
- pane/pain
- pair/pare/pear
- passed/past
- pause/paws
- pea/pee
- peace/piece
- peak/peek
- pedal/peddle
- pi/pie
- plane/plain
- pole/poll
- pray/prey
- presence/presents
- pride/pryed
- prince/prints
- profit/prophet
- pros/prose
- quarts/quartz
- racket/racquet
- rain/reign
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- raise/rays/raze
- rap/wrap
- read/red
- read/reed
- real/reel
- recede/reseed
- review/revue
- roe/row
- right/rite/write
- ring/wring
- road/rode/rowed
- roam/Rome
- role/roll
- root/route
- rote/wrote
- rough/ruff
- rye/wry
- sachet/sashay
- sacks/sax
- sail/sale
- scene/seen
- sea/see
- seam/seem
- sear/seer
- serf/surf
- sew/so
- shoe/shoo
- sic/sick
- sighs/size
- Sioux/sue
- slay/sleigh
- soar/sore
- sole/soul
- some/sum
- son/sun
- sonny/sunny
- soot/suit
- stair/stare
- stake/steak
- straight/strait
- suite/sweet
- tea/tee
- team/teem
- tense/tents
- tern/turn
- their/there/they're
- threw/through
- throne/thrown
- tic/tick
- to/too/two
- toad/told
- toe/tow
- toon/tune
- urn/earn
- vain/vein
- vary/very
- verses/versus
- vial/vile
- vice/vise
- wade/weighed
- wail/whale
- waist/waste
- waive/wave
- walk/wok
- war/wore
- ware/wear/where
- we/wee
- we'd/weed
- we're/were
- weak/week
- whine/wine
- whoa/woe
- wood/would
- yoke/yolk
- you're/your
- you'll/yule
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