70 most commonly used homophones in English

70 most commonly used homophones in English

Many times people get confused with some English words with their pronunciations. Say, for example, air - heir, eye - I, etc. The spellings of these words are different, but the production of sound is exactly the same when you pronounce them.

Yes, you are right that I am talking about Homophones!

By the way, what are homophones?


Definition of Homophones

Each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling are called homophones. 

For example, new and knew, hymn and him, etc.

There are said to be about 12,000+ homophones in English. But the fact we do not use all of them in our day-to-day conversations. And it is not necessary to know all of them unless you are going to publish a book on "the complete list of homophones in English"!

In this post, I will take you through the list of the most commonly used 70 homophones in our day-to-day communications.

You could please share this list of homophones with your students, friends, and colleagues, etc. They will help you in speaking individual words with the correct pronunciation.
 Please note that the homophones listed here are based on British English.


70 most commonly used homophones in English

1
Air
Heir
2
Aisle
Isle
3
Ante-
Anti
4
Eye
I
5
Bare
Bear
6
Be
Bee
7
Brake
Break
8
Buy
By
9
Cell
Sell
10
Cent
Scent
11
Cereal
Serial
12
Coarse
Course
13
Complement
Compliment
14
Dam
Damn
15
Dear
Deer
16
Die
Dye
17
Fair
Fare
18
Fir
Fur
19
Flour
Flower
20
For
Four
21
Hair
Hare
22
Heal
Heel
23
Hear
Here
24
Him
Hymn
25
Hole
Whole
26
Hour
Our
27
Idle
Idol
28
In
Inn
29
Knight
Night
30
Knot
Not
31
Know
No
32
Made
Maid
33
Mail
Male
34
Meat
Meet
35
Morning
Mourning
36
None
Nun
37
Ore
Or
38
One
Won
39
Pair
Pear
40
Peace
Piece
41
Plain
Plane
42
Poor
Pour
43
Pray
Prey
44
Principal
Principle
45
Profit
Prophet
46
Real
Reel
47
Right
Write
48
Root
Route
49
Sail
Sale
50
Sea
See
51
Seam
Seem
52
Sight
Site
53
Sew
So, sow
54
Shore
Sure
55
Sole
Soul
56
Some
Sum
57
Son
Sun
58
Stair
Stare
59
Stationary
Stationery
60
Steal
Steel
61
Suite
Sweet
62
Tail
Tale
63
Their
There
64
To
Too/two
65
Toe
Tow
66
Waist
Waste
67
Wait
Weight
68
Way
Weigh
69
Weak
Week
70
Wear
where

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