List of 300+ Homophones from A-Z with

Useful Examples

What are homophones? How do you comfort a distraught grammar teacher?

You say, there, their, they’re! This old joke is an example of a homophone.

In speaking, we seldom need to worry about homophone mistakes because

the person you are speaking to understands what you are saying due to the
context of the conversation. It is with writing that homophone confusion makes
a difference because, with identically sounding words, it is easy to use the
wrong word. To help untangle the confusion, let’s look at some commonly
confused homophones.

What is a Homophone?
Homophone definition: In English, a homophone is a word that is pronounced
exactly or nearly the same as another word but differs in meaning and is
spelled differently. A homophone is a linguistic situation in which two words
have the same pronunciation but have different spellings and meanings. This
can be confused with homographs and homonyms. Let’s define all three.

As we saw, homophones are words with different meanings that sound the
same. A homograph is a group of words that are spelled the same, but have
different meanings and usually have different pronunciations. A homonym, on
the other hand, is a word in a group of words that are spelled the same and
pronounced the same but have different meanings. This all can be confusing
to know which word or spelling to use to convey the correct meaning. Adding
to the potential confusion is that all homonyms are homophones because they
are pronounced the same. But, not all homophones are homonyms because
not all homophones are spelled the same.
Homophone examples

Homophones are the most confusing words in the English language.

 Rode — Road
 Sauce — Source
 Scene — Seen
 See — Sea
 Side — Sighed
 Soar — Sore
 Sole — Soul
 Some — Sum
 Sort — Sought
 Stare — Stair
 Stationary — Stationery
 Steal — Steel
 Stile — Style
 Sun — Son
 Tail — Tale