List of Use the correct homophone
- Accept – to receive; Except – to exclude
- Aisle – a passageway between rows; Isle – a small island
- Allowed – permitted; Aloud – spoken out loud
- Bald – lacking hair; Bawled – cried loudly
- Bare – not covered; Bear – an animal or to endure
- Beach – sandy shore; Beach – to hit or collide
- Brake – a device to stop a vehicle; Break – to shatter or fracture
- Capital – a city that is a seat of government; Capitol – a building where lawmakers meet
- Cereal – a type of grain; Serial – a sequence or series
- Complement – something that completes; Compliment – praise or admiration
- Counsel – advice or guidance; Council – a group of people governing
- Current – happening now or a flow of water; Currant – a type of fruit
- Device – a tool or gadget; Devise – to plan or invent
- Dew – moisture from the air; Due – expected or owed
- Die – to stop living; Dye – a colorant used for coloring
- Eat – to consume food; Eighty – the number after seventy-nine
- Effect – a result or outcome; Affect – to influence
- Fair – just or light in color; Fare – the price of a ticket
- Flour – a baking ingredient; Flower – a blooming plant
- Forth – onward in time or place; Fourth – the number 4 in a sequence
- Hole – an opening; Whole – entire or complete
- Knot – a tied loop; Not – a negation
- Lead – a type of metal or to guide; Led – past tense of lead
- Mail – postal service; Male – a gender
- Manor – a large house or estate; Manner – a way of doing something
- Meat – edible flesh; Meet – to encounter or assemble
- Minor – lesser or younger; Miner – someone who works in a mine
- Moral – ethical or virtuous; Morale – the spirit or mood
- Mourn – to grieve; Morn – the beginning of the day
- Muscle – a tissue in the body; Mussel – a type of shellfish
- None – not one; Nun – a member of a religious community
- Pail – a bucket; Pale – light in color or lacking intensity
- Pair – two of something; Pare – to trim or cut; Pear – a fruit
- Pass – to go by or succeed; Past – the time that has gone by
- Peace – tranquility or absence of conflict; Piece – a portion or part
- Principal – the head of a school; Principle – a fundamental truth
- Profit – financial gain; Prophet – a person who foretells
- Rain – precipitation; Reign – to rule as a monarch; Rein – a strap used to control a horse
- Right – correct or a direction; Write – to compose text
- Rose – a type of flower; Rose – past tense of rise
- Sail – a canvas for wind propulsion; Sale – a transaction of goods
- Scene – a setting or part of a play; Seen – past participle of see
- Serf – a laborer bound to the land; Surf – to ride waves
- Sole – the bottom of a foot or shoe; Soul – the spiritual part of a person
- Stationary – not moving; Stationery – writing materials
- Steal – to take unlawfully; Steel – a type of metal
- Their – belonging to them; There – in or at that place; They’re – contraction of they are
- Threw – past tense of throw; Through – moving in one side and out the other
- To – a preposition; Too – meaning excessively or also; Two – the number 2
- Vain – excessive pride in oneself; Vein – a blood vessel
- Wait – to remain in expectation; Weight – the measure of heaviness
- Wave – to move back and forth; Waive – to give up or relinquish
- Weak – lacking strength; Week – a period of seven days
- Weather – atmospheric conditions; Whether – indicating a choice or doubt
- Wear – to have on one’s body; Where – a location
- Witch – a person with magical powers; Which – a question word or used for choices
- Wood – material from trees; Would – a modal verb indicating possibility
- Yolk – the yellow part of an egg; Yoke – a device used to harness animals
- Affect – to influence; Effect – a result
- Bare – uncovered; Bear – to endure or an animal
- Cane – a plant or walking stick; Cain – a name or biblical figure
- Cell – a small room or unit; Sell – to exchange for money
- Close – near or to shut; Clothes – garments worn
- Creak – a squeaking sound; Cric – a type of cricket
- Dane – a person from Denmark; Deign – to do something below one’s dignity
- Flair – a talent or style; Flare – a burst of light or flame
- Gait – the manner of walking; Gate – a movable barrier
- Humerus – a bone in the arm; Humorous – funny or amusing
- Junction – a place where things meet; Juntion – not a correct term (commonly confused with junction)
- Knot – tied rope; Not – negation
- Lend – to give temporarily; Loan – money borrowed
- Manner – a way of doing something; Manor – a large house
- Nausea – a feeling of sickness; Nauseous – causing nausea
- Oppose – to resist; Oppose – a mistaken term for oppose
- Pore – a small opening in the skin; Pour – to cause a liquid to flow
- Peel – to remove skin; Peal – a loud sound, often of bells
- Plead – to beg; Plead – to appeal (commonly confused with plead)
- Propose – to suggest or offer; Purpose – an aim or intention
- Reign – to rule as a monarch; Rain – precipitation
- Sole – only or the bottom part of a shoe; Soul – the spiritual essence
- Stair – a step in a staircase; Stare – to look fixedly
- Stationery – writing materials; Stationary – not moving
- Steer – to guide a vehicle; Sphere – a round shape
- Tale – a story; Tail – the rear part of an animal
- Taught – past tense of teach; Taut – stretched tight
- Teem – to overflow; Team – a group of people working together
- Toe – a part of the foot; Tow – to pull something behind
- Toad – a type of amphibian; Tode – not a standard term (commonly confused with toad)
- Vain – excessively proud; Vein – a blood vessel
- Wade – to walk through water; Weighed – past tense of weigh
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