List of Use the correct homophone

No.HomophonesMeaning 1Meaning 2
1aloud / allowedaloud: spoken out loudallowed: permitted
2bare / bearbare: uncoveredbear: an animal / to carry
3brake / breakbrake: to stop a vehiclebreak: to shatter or rest
4cell / sellcell: a small room or basic unitsell: to exchange for money
5cent / scent / sentcent: a coinscent: a smell / sent: past of send
6dear / deerdear: loved one / expensivedeer: an animal
7dye / diedye: to color somethingdie: to stop living
8flour / flowerflour: powder used in bakingflower: blooming plant
9hair / harehair: on the headhare: a fast rabbit-like animal
10heal / heelheal: to make betterheel: back part of the foot
11hear / herehear: to listenhere: at this place
12him / hymnhim: male pronounhymn: religious song
13hole / wholehole: an openingwhole: entire
14knight / nightknight: warriornight: evening time
15know / noknow: to be awareno: a negative response
16lead / ledlead: metal / to guideled: past of lead
17meat / meetmeat: foodmeet: to come together
18one / wonone: number 1won: past tense of win
19pair / pear / parepair: two itemspear: fruit / pare: to trim
20peace / piecepeace: calmpiece: a portion
21plain / planeplain: simple or flat landplane: aircraft or tool
22principal / principleprincipal: head of a schoolprinciple: rule or belief
23right / writeright: correct / directionwrite: to form letters
24role / rollrole: part in a play or functionroll: to turn / a bun
25sail / salesail: to travel on watersale: discount
26scene / seenscene: part of a play/movieseen: past tense of see
27sea / seesea: oceansee: to observe
28sew / so / sowsew: to stitchso: therefore / sow: to plant
29son / sunson: male childsun: star in the sky
30stair / starestair: stepstare: to look fixedly
31stationary / stationerystationary: not movingstationery: writing materials
32steal / steelsteal: to take unlawfullysteel: strong metal
33tail / taletail: end part of an animaltale: a story
34their / there / they’retheir: belonging to themthere: in that place / they’re: they are
35to / too / twoto: prepositiontoo: also / two: number
36vain / vane / veinvain: proudvane: shows wind direction / vein: blood vessel
37waist / wastewaist: body partwaste: to use poorly
38weather / whetherweather: climatewhether: expressing choice
39weak / weekweak: not strongweek: seven days
40buy / by / byebuy: to purchaseby: next to / bye: goodbye
41blue / blewblue: colorblew: past of blow
42knew / newknew: past of knownew: not old
43aloud / allowedaloud: out loudallowed: permitted
44berry / buryberry: small fruitbury: to place in the ground
45coarse / coursecoarse: roughcourse: path or subject
46cue / queuecue: signalqueue: a line
47grate / greatgrate: shredgreat: very good
48kernel / colonelkernel: seedcolonel: military rank
49loot / luteloot: stolen goodslute: musical instrument
50main / manemain: chief, most importantmane: hair of a lion or horse
51maize / mazemaize: cornmaze: a puzzle with paths
52miner / minorminer: someone who works in a mineminor: under 18 or less important
53morning / mourningmorning: early part of the daymourning: feeling of sorrow
54none / nunnone: not anynun: a religious woman
55overdo / overdueoverdo: do too muchoverdue: late
56palate / palette / palletpalate: roof of mouthpalette: artist’s board / pallet: platform
57pedal / peddlepedal: foot leverpeddle: to sell
58plain / planeplain: simpleplane: flying vehicle
59pole / pollpole: long stickpoll: survey or vote
60pore / pourpore: small opening in skinpour: to flow liquid
61presence / presentspresence: being therepresents: gifts
62rain / reign / reinrain: precipitationreign: rule / rein: strap for horse
63read / reedread: to interpret textreed: tall grass
64root / routeroot: part of plantroute: path
65sail / salesail: travel by boatsale: discount
66sight / site / citesight: ability to seesite: location / cite: quote
67sole / soulsole: only or foot bottomsoul: spirit
68steak / stakesteak: meat cutstake: stick or risk
69throne / thrownthrone: royal seatthrown: past of throw
70vain / veinvain: conceitedvein: blood vessel
71vane / veinvane: weather indicatorvein: blood vessel
72wait / weightwait: to stayweight: heaviness
73wear / wherewear: to put on clotheswhere: location
74which / witchwhich: choicewitch: magic woman
75whine / winewhine: complainwine: alcoholic drink
76wood / wouldwood: from treeswould: past of will
77yoke / yolkyoke: wooden harnessyolk: egg center
78passed / pastpassed: moved bypast: time gone
79pause / pawspause: breakpaws: animal feet
80plain / planeplain: ordinaryplane: aircraft
81seen / sceneseen: past of seescene: part of play or setting
82tide / tiedtide: sea level rise and falltied: fastened
83prey / prayprey: hunted animalpray: to speak to God
84allowed / aloudallowed: permittedaloud: out loud
85bazaar / bizarrebazaar: marketbizarre: strange
86blew / blueblew: past of blowblue: color
87born / borneborn: given birthborne: carried
88capital / capitolcapital: city or moneycapitol: government building
89desert / dessertdesert: dry landdessert: sweet dish
90faint / feintfaint: pass outfeint: fake move
91gorilla / guerillagorilla: animalguerilla: fighter
92idle / idolidle: not activeidol: object of worship
93medal / meddlemedal: awardmeddle: interfere
94muscle / musselmuscle: body partmussel: shellfish
95peak / peek / piquepeak: highest pointpeek: quick look / pique: irritation
96plain / planeplain: not decoratedplane: flat surface
97right / rite / writeright: correct / rite: ceremony / write: scribble
98role / rollrole: part playedroll: spin / list
99sight / citesight: visioncite: quote
100vane / veinvane: wind bladevein: blood pathway

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