​Homophone indicators

announce 
articulated
audible
audience
audition
broadcast
by the sound of it
call
called for
catch
declare
dictate
discuss
echo
exclaim

express
hear
in speech
​in the ear
it's said
​lecture
listen
mention
on air
on the phone
on the radio
oral
outspoken
overheard
pick up

proclaim
profess
pronounce
pronounced
quote
read out
​received
recite
recount
register
​remark
​​report
reporter
rumoured
say

​shout
so-called
sound
​soundly
sounds like
speak
speaker
state
talking
telling
voice
we hear
what’s said
whisper
​word of mouth​
​

Homophones

A

ad - add
aid - aide
ail - ale
air - heir​

aisle - I'll - isle
all - awl
allowed - aloud
altar - alter​

arc - ark
ascent - assent
ate - eight
auger - augur​

​aught - ought
ay - aye - eye - I

B

bad - bade
bail - bale
bait - bate
baize - bays - beys
bald - bawled
ball - bawl
band - banned
banns - bans
bar - barre
bard - barred
bare - bear
bark - barque
barque - bark
base - bass​

bask - basque
be - bee
beach - beech
bean - been
beat - beet
beau - bow
beaut - butte
beetle - betel
bel - belle
berry - bury
berth - birth
bight - bite - byte
billed - build
blew - blue​

​​bloc - block
boar - bore
board - bored
boarder - border
​bocks - box
​bold - bowled
bolder - boulder
bole - bowl
boos - booze
bootee - booty
born - borne
bough - bow
boy - buoy
brae - bray​

​braid - brayed
braise - brays - braze
brake - break
​bread - bred
brews - bruise
bridal - bridle
broach - brooch
brows - browse
bruit - brute
but - butt
buy - by - bye
buyer - byre

C

cache - cash
cachou - cashew
call - caul
cannon - canon
canvas - canvass
cask - casque
cast - caste
caudal - caudle
caught - court
cause - caws
cede - seed
ceiling - sealing
cell - sell

censor - sensor
cent - scent - sent
cere - sear - sere
cereal - serial
cession - session
cheap - cheep
check - cheque - Czech
chews - choose
chic - sheik
chilli - chilly
choir - quire
chord - cord - cored
chute - shoot

cite - sight - site
clause - claws
clew - clue
climb - clime
coarse - course
coat - cote
coax - cokes
cocks - cox
coin - quoin
colonel - kernel
come - cum
complement - compliment
coo - coup​

​cops - copse
core - corps
council - counsel
​crays - craze
creak - creek
crewed - crude
crews - cruise
croc - crock
cue - queue
curb - kerb
currant - current
cygnet - signet

D

dam - damn
Dane - deign
days - daze
dean - dene​

dear - deer
​desert - dessert
dew - due
die - dye​

discreet - discrete
doe - dough
does - doze
done - dun​

​draft - draught
ducks - dux

E

earn - urn
eave - eve​

eight - ate
ewe - yew - you​

ewes - use - yews
eye - ay - aye - I​

​eyed - I'd
eyelet - islet

F

fain - fain, feign
faint - feint
fair - fare
farther - father
fate - fete
faun - fawn
fay - fey
faze - phase​

feat - feet
few - phew
fiance - fiancee
filter - philtre
fin - Finn
find - fined
finish - Finnish
fir - fur​

fflair - flare
flea - flee
flecks - flex
flew - flu - flue
floe - flow
flour - flower
foaled - fold
for - fore - four​

​forbear - forebear
​forth - fourth
foul - fowl
franc - frank
frays - phrase
frees - freeze - frieze
furs - furze

G

Gael - gale
gaff - gaffe
gage - gauge
gait - gate
genes - jeans​

gibe - gybe
gild - guild
gilt - guilt
gin - jinn
gnu - knew - new​

gored - gourd
grate - great
graze - greys
greave - grieve
grip - grippe​

grisly - grizzly
groan - grown
​guise - guy

H

hail - hale
hair - hare
hall - haul
hart - heart
hay - hey
he'd - heed
he'll - heal - heel

hear - here
heard - herd
heir - air
hertz - hurts
heroin - heroine
hew - hue
hi - hie - high

​hide - hied
higher - hire
him - hymn
ho - hoe
hoar - whore
hoard - horde
hoarse - horse​

​hock - hough
hoes - hose
​holey - holy - wholly
holm - home
hoop - whoop
hour - our

I

I - ay - aye - eye
I'd - eyed
I'll - aisle - isle

idle - idol
​in - inn
indict - indite

isle - aisle, I'll
islet - eyelet
it's - its

J

jam - jamb
jeans - genes​
jewel - joule
​jinn - gin

K

kerb - curb
kernel - colonel
key - quay
knag - nag​

knap - nap
knave - nave
knead - kneed - need
knew - gnu - new​

knight - night
knit - nit
knob - nob
knock - nock​

knot - not
know - no
knows - nose

L

lac - lack
lacks - lax
lade - laid
lain - lane
lama - llama
lap - Lapp
laps - lapse​

lay - lei - ley
lays - laze
lea - lee
leach - leech
lead - led
leak - leek
let - Lett​

limb - limn
links - lynx
levee - levy
licence - license
lichen - liken
lie - lye
lieu - loo​

lo - low
load - lode
​loan - lone
loos - lose
loot - lute

M

made - maid
mail - male
main - mane
maize - maze
mall - maul
mantel - mantle
mare - mayor
mark - marque​

marshall - martial
​mask - masque
mat - matt
mead - meed
meat - meet - mete
medal - meddle
metal - mettle
meter - metre​

mewl - mule
mews - muse
might - mite
mind - mined
minks - minx
mo - mot - mow
moan - mown
moat - mote​

​mode - mowed
​moose - mousse
morning - mourning
mucous - mucus
muscle - mussel

N

nag - knag
nap - knap
naval - navel
nave - knave
nay - nee - neigh​

​neck - nek
need - knead - kneed
new - gnu, knew
nicks - nix
night - knight​

nit - knit
no - know
nob - knob
nock - knock
none - nun​

nose - knows
not - knot

O

oar - or - ore
ode - owed
​oh - owe
​one - won

ought - aught
our - hour
owed - ode​

P

pa - pas
packs - pax
pail - pale
pain - pane
pair - pare - pear
palette - pallet
pall - pawl
paten - patten
pause - paws

peace - piece
peak - pique
peal - peel
pearl - purl
peas - pease - pees
pedal - peddle
peer - pier
phase - faze
phew - few

philtre - filter
phrase - frays
pi - pie
picks - pyx
place - plaice
pleas - please
plum - plumb
pole - poll
pore - pour​

​practice - practise
​praise - prays - preys
pride - pried
pries - prise - prize
principal - principle
pros - prose

Q

quad - quod
quarts - quartz
quay - key
quean - queen​​

queue - cue
quire - choir
quoin - coin​

R

rack - wrack
racket - racquet
rain - reign - rein
raise - rays - raze
rap - wrap
read - red
read - rede - reed
real - reel
reek - wreak​

rest - wrest
retch - wretch
review - revue
rex - wrecks
rhyme - rime
rick - wrick
riddel - riddle
right - rite - wright - write
ring - wring​

riot - ryot
road - rode - rowed
roam - Rome
roc - rock
roe - row
role - roll
roo - rue
rood - rude - rued
root - route​

rose - rows
​rote - wrote
rough - ruff
rouse - rows
rung - wrung
rye - wry

S

sac - sack
sacks - sax
sail - sale
scene - seen
scent - cent - sent
scull - skull
sealing - ceiling
seam - seem
sear - cere - sere
seas - sees - seize
seed - cede
seek - Sikh
sell - cell
sensor - censor
serf - surf​

serge - surge
serial - cereal
session - cession
sew - so - sow
shake - sheikh
shear - sheer
sheik - chic
shoe - shoo
shoot - chute
sic - sick
side - sighed
sighs - size
sight - cite - site
sign - sine - syne
signet - cygnet​

sink - synch
slay - sleigh
sleight - slight
sloe - slow
soak - soke
soar - sore
soared - sword
sold - soled
sole - soul
some - sum
son - sun
spade - spayed
spec - speck
staid - stayed
stair - stare​

​stake - steak
stationary - stationery
steal - steel
​step - steppe
​sticks - Styx
stile - style
storey - story
straight - strait
sty - stye
succour - sucker
suede - swayed
suite - sweet
sundae - Sunday
swat - swot

T

tacks - tax
tail - tale
taper - tapir
tare - tear
taught - taut
team - teem
teas - tease - tees​

tern - turn
terrene - terrine
Thai - tie
their - there - they're
threw - through
throes - throws
throne - thrown​

thyme - time
tic - tick
tide - tied
timber - timbre
tire - tyre
to - too - two
toad - toed - towed​

told - tolled
​ton - tun
trait - tray
troop - troupe

U

urn - earn
use - ewes - yews​

V

vail - vale - veil
vain - vane - vein
venous - Venus​

W

wade - weighed
wail - wale - whale
wain - wane
waist - waste
wait - weight
waive - wave
wall - waul
war - wore
ware - wear - where
warn - worn
watt - what
wax - whacks
way - weigh - whey
​we - wee

we'd - weed
we'll - weal - wheel
we're - weir
we've - weave
weak - week
wean - ween
weather - wether - whether
wees - wheeze
weld - welled
wen - when
were - whirr
wet - whet
which - witch
whig - wig

​while - wile
whiled - wild
whin - win
whine - wine
whined - wind
whit - wit
white - wight
whither - wither
who's - whose
​wholly - holey - holy
whoop - hoop
whore - hoar
won - one
wood - would

wrack - rack
wrap - rap
wreak - reek
wrecks - rex
wrest - rest
wretch - retch
wrick - rick
wright - right - rite - write
wring - ring
wrote - rote
wry - rye
wrung - rung

Y

yap - yapp
yew - ewe - you
yews - ewes - use

yoke - yolk
​yore - you're - your
you'll - yule

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