What are 100 examples of homonyms?

Answer 1

The term homonyms can be used to refer to different types of words. These sets of words are homophones (sound-alike words) that have different spellings but the same spoken sound in one or more English dialects.

1. acts ax
2. adds ads
3. ail ale
4. air heir
5. aisle I'll isle
6. all awl
7. allowed aloud
8. alter altar
9. ant aunt
10. ark arc
11. ate eight
12. bale bail
13. be bee
14. beach beech
15. beat beet
16. beer bier
17. bell belle
18. billed build
19. bite byte bight
20. blew blue
21. boar bore
22. board bored
23. break brake
24. breach breech
25. brood brewed
26. but butt
27. by bye buy
28. capital capitol
29. cede seed
30. cell sell
31. cereal serial
32. chants chance
33. chard charred
34. chews choose
35. chic sheik (some)
36. chute shoot
37. claws clause
38. close clothes
39. coarse course
40. creak creek
41. crews cruise
42. days daze
43. deer dear
44. die dye
45. do due dew
46. doe dough
47. done dun
48. earn urn
49. ewe you
50. eye I
51. eyed I'd
52. fair fare
53. fate fete
54. feat feet
55. find fined
56. flee flea
57. flew flu
58. flower flour
59. for fore four
60. forth fourth
61. foul fowl
62. gate gait
63. gored gourd (sometimes)
64. grate great
65. groan grown
66. guessed guest
67. hail hale
68. hair hare
69. hall haul
70. hay hey
71. heal heel he'll
72. hear here
73. heed he'd
74. herd heard
75. hi high
76. higher hire
77. him hymn
78. hoarse horse
79. hoes hose
80. hole whole
81. idle idol
82. in inn
83. knew new gnu
84. knows nose noes (nos)
85. lead (element) led
86. liar lyre
87. maid made
88. male mail
89. mane main
90. mat matte
91. medal metal
92. meet meat
93. nay neigh
94. need knead
95. none nun
96. one one
97. ore oar or
98. our hour
99. pact packed
100. pail pale
101. pain pane
102. pear pare pair
103. peddle petal
104. peer pier
105. pi pie
106. piece peace
107. plane plain
108. pole poll
109. poor pour
110. pray prey
111. prays preys praise
112. principal principle
113. prints prince
114. profit prophet
115. rap wrap
116. read red
117. reads reeds
118. right rite write
119. ring wring
120. rise ryes
121. rode road
122. roll role
123. rote wrote
124. rows rose
125. rude rued
126. rye wry
127. sale sail
128. sea see
129. sealing ceiling
130. seam seem
131. seen scene
132. sent scent cent
133. sew sow (verb)
134. sewers suers
135. shear sheer
136. shoo shoe
137. sight site cite
138. slay sleigh
139. soar sore
140. son sun
141. soul sole
142. stare stair
143. steal steel
144. suede swayed
145. suite sweet
146. symbol cymbal
147. tail tale
148. tare tear
149. their there they're
150. tide tied
151. to too two
152. told tolled
153. wail whale wale
154. wait weight
155. war wore
156. we wee
157. weak week
158. we'd weed
159. we'll wheel
160. weigh way whey
161. weighed wade
162. wet whet
163. which witch
164. whine wine
165. wood would
166. your you're yore
167. yule you'll

* heir-air * cite-sight * main-mane * sole-soul * peek-peak * pail-pale * scene-seen * ate-eight * two-too * see-sea

Answer 2

I'm happy to provide a few examples of homonyms:

1. bat (flying mammal) / bat (sports equipment)
2. bow (bend at the waist) / bow (ornamental knot)
3. lead (to go in front) / lead (metal)
4. tear (to rip) / tear (a drop of water from the eye)
5. right (correct) / right (direction)

Please let me know if you would like more examples!

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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