English +100 Most Common Homophones List
accede exceed
accept – except
addition – edition
ax – acts
ayes – eyes
better – bettor
bib – bibb
but – butt
buy – by – bye
byte – bight
cache – cash
caddie – caddy
cops – copse
coral – choral
cord – cored
core – corps
cored – chord
corps – core
coulee – coolie
coup – coo
course – coarse
cousin – cozen
coy – koi
cozen – cousin
craft – kraft
crape – crepe
crawl – kraal
creak – creek
crepe – crape
crewel – cruel
dense – dents
descent – dissent
dun – done
dye – die
dyeing – dying
fare – fair
fate – fete
faun – fawn
faze – phase
feat – feet
feint – faint
fends – fens
flour – flower
flyer – flier
foaled – fold
fort – forte
hertz – hurts
hew – hue
hoes – hose
hold – holed
hole – whole
holed – hold
incite – insight
jam – jamb
jean – gene
jell – gel
jibe – gibe
kernel – colonel
knap – nap
knave – nave
ladder – latter
lade – laid
lain – lane
lays – laze
lea – lee
leach – leech
lead – led
leak – leek
lean – lien
leased – least
led – lead
lee – lea
leech – leach
liar – lier
lichen – liken
lie – lye
owe – oh
padded – patted
paean – paeon
pail – pale
pain – pane
pair – pare
pale – pail
parish – perish
real – reel
root – route
rose – rows
rows – rose
rude – rued
rue – roux
rued – rude
troop – troupe
trussed – trust
turn – tern
tux – tucks
urn – earn
use – ewes
vale – veil
vane – vein
vary – very
vein – vain
ways – weighs
we – wee
we’ll – wheel
weak – week
wear – where
weave – we’ve
wretch – retch
wring – ring
yews – use
yoke – yolk
you’ll – Yule
your – you’re
yule – you’ll
