Homophones 

 

 

 

Hey – hay                     tie – tye                         blue – blew

Red – read            hi – high               ate – eight

low – lo                been – bean          pear – pair

Nose – knows        whine – wine         beech – beach

Raw – roar            in – inn                 steel – steal

Mane – main         reign – rain           here – hear

New – knew          no – know             where – wear

Hole – whole         threw – through     night – knight

Weight – wait        be – bee               flea – flee

Sun – son             break – brake        steak – stake

Tea – tee              flour – flower        hair – hare

Sail – sale             pail – pale            die – dye

Mail – male           tail – tale             board – bored

Berry – bury          fair – fare             sell – cell

Fate – fete            mist – missed       tyre – tire

Bowl – bole           cheque – check     turn – tern

War – wore           pane – pain          made – maid

Father – farther    plain – plane         time – thyme

Heard – herd        boy – buoy           peace – piece

Wood – would       key – quay           saw – sore

Write – right         Ireland – island    toe – tow

Stare – stair          but – butt           our – hour

Bear – bare           great – grate       see – sea

Deer – dear          which – witch       way – weigh

Owe – oh             put – putt            some – sum

I – eye                 slay – sleigh         road – rode

Days – daze          fur – fir              meet – meat

Weather – whether                         read - reed

 

Their – there – they’re        for – four – fore

Flew – flu – flue                  I’ll – isle – aisle

Your – you’re – yore           pour – pore – paw

By – buy – bye                    to – too – two

So – sow – sew                   you – yew – ewe

We – wee – whee                or – oar – ore – awe

 

We make that 105 homophones!  Can you think of any more?

 

No wonder making spelling choices is difficult!

 

 

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