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What Are Homophones?

Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings (ate and eight, for example).

Here is a list of the homophone-related resources you will find on this pagee

Tips for Teaching Homophones

Students often find homophones interesting and it can be fun teaching them! You may like to teach them as they come up in everyday spelling and reading, or you may prefer to teach them directly. The All About Homophones workbook provides 101 interesting worksheets covering sets of words taught in grades 1 through 8.

Here are some other ideas for teaching homophones:

When a spelling word has a homophone, point it out to your student and have him add it to his own personal list.
Take turns making up sentences that contain pairs of homophones—the sillier, the better. "The toad towed the car." "Wait here while I check the elephant's weight."
Concentrate on the most important pairs first. The ones needed most often in writing include ad/add, ant/aunt, ate/eight, be/bee, blew/blue, buy/by/bye, hear/here, hour/our, its/it's, know/no, one/won, their/there/they're, theirs/there's, to/too/two, who's/whose, and your/you're.
Point out a pair of homophones, such as rose/rows, and ask a question such as "Which word means a flower?"
Find two pictures that represent the homophones. Ask the student to match a picture with the WRONG word, instead of the right word. After the student has correctly matched each picture with the wrong word, ask him to match it with the correct one. Pictures add fun to the whole activity.

Short, interesting sessions teach more than long, boring ones, so make them memorable!

List of Homophones

Here are more homophone pairs than you can shake a stick at – just ask this pearof bares!

It's quite likely that you will find some pairs on this list that are not homophones in your region. For example, boy and bouy are pronounced differently in some dialects, while they are pronounced the same in others.

In order to make this list as useful as possible, words that are archaic, slang, naughty, or extremely uncommon have not been included.

What's the Difference Between Homonyms, Homophones, and Homographs?

If you are confused about the differences between homonyms, homophones, and homographs, you're in the right place to get it straightened out!

Homonyms

This is the big category—the umbrella—under which we find homophones and homographs.

Homophones

Homophones are words that sound alike, but have different meanings and spellings. They are the sets of words that you probably learned in elementary school, though your teacher may have used the broader category ofhomonyms.

Examples of common homophones include:

their and there
deer and dear
hear and here
to, too, and two

Regional accents may affect whether words are homophones. For example, in certain parts of the country, weather andwhether sound the same. For those of us in the U.S., due and do are pronounced alike, but in most British accents, they sound different.