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Name the sets of English homophones – words which are spelled differently and have different meanings, but have the same pronouncation. Groups of homophones are sorted by the first word in each group alphabetically. Words then sorted within each group A-Z. Parts of speech such as plurals, past participles, gerunds, etc are not included if the root word is already listed UNLESS a third new word is a homophone in the group created by the other part of speech. Only sets of words in which each word is on the TWL06 word list (a widely-used Scrabble word list) are included, so in general proper nouns are not included. Group # shown along with number of words in that group.

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clemente

1 year ago

phase / faze

all three of rout / root / route

aerie / airy (as noted below)

Last edited 1 year ago by clemente

df2sobe

2 years ago

Gnu (with new and knew)?

rushscott

2 years ago

joule jewel

alexfish86

2 years ago

caught, court ?

ERR40

2 years ago

Three and Free (?)

victoria

10 years ago

also aerie/airy

victoria

10 years ago

affect/effect (I pronounce the verb of the former and the noun of the latter the same — YMMV), addition/edition.

stubz82

6 years ago

Reply to victoria

in what dialect are put and putt homophonous?

uefa81glory

10 years ago

Fort / Fought should be there surely?

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darin

10 years ago

Reply to uefa81glory

i left out the ‘r’ words (there were a number) – a judgment call.

prcstntr

10 years ago

Err? with air and heir. I know some rhyme it with prefer, but “air” is considered a valid pronunciation by my dictionary.

When I finish, the hardest/missed don’t appear.

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darin

10 years ago

Reply to prcstntr

fixing the hardest/missed.

Aiwendil

7 years ago

Reply to prcstntr

A quiz like this is highly dependent on dialect, and a lot of people distinguish the vowel in “err” (or “merry”) from that in “air” (or “Mary”).

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chocolover219

10 years ago

I imagine that a bunch of homophones that I’m not finding are because of regional accent differences, i.e. ant/aunt are homophones to me while cot/caught are not, but it’s the opposite for my cousins who grew up in a different state. However, there were some that I was surprised not to find, like banned/band, ate/eight, do with dew/due. Is this a case of regional differences that I am unaware of?

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darin

10 years ago

Reply to chocolover219

i suspect the source didn’t have *every* single homophone on it…i know contractions i left out as they are not on the TWL06 word list. and yes some are judgment calls with pronounciation. i will add the ones people mentioned here that weren’t included.

10 years ago

There were a few others missing—some because of the nature of the source (so, “can’t” and “cant”, or “why” and “Y”), but there were a few others I expected to be there but didn’t find (and now can’t remember, sigh).

Retracto

10 years ago

Close and clothes don’t seem to be there. Also don and dawn didn’t work. Or maybe I’m mixed up.

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Aiwendil

10 years ago

Reply to Retracto

In my accent, neither of those are homophones.

prcstntr

10 years ago

Reply to Aiwendil

In mine, both are.

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