Ate: He ate a healthy dinner.Eight: I saw eight fish in the pond.

Break: Do not break your pencil.Brake: Dad stepped on the brake to stop the car.

Buy: She went to the store to buy milk.By: There was a tall tree by the pond.

Deer: Deer run through the field in the fall.Dear: My dear friend sent me a card in the mail.

For: She has a gift for Grandma.Four: We will pick four daisies.

Flour: The recipe calls for two cups of flour.Flower: She will plant a flower by the fence.

Flu: He was sick in bed with the flu.Flew: A bird flew across the field.

Hear: I can hear the trumpet.Here: Look over here.

Heard: I heard the choir sing.Herd: The rancher gathered his herd of cattle.

Knew: I knew the correct answer.New: Did you get a new coat?

Most Commonly Confused

Homophones

Meat: We will have carrots and potatoes with meat for dinner.Meet: Did you meet the new coach?

Pair: I lost my favorite pair of socks.Pear: A pear is a delicious fruit.

Peace: I felt great peace while sitting next to the quiet brook.Piece: Would you like a piece of pie?

Peak: The top of the mountain peak is covered in snow.Peek: Do not peek inside the package.

Pedal: Pedal your bike up the hill. Petal: The flower petal fell to the ground.

Right: Turn right at the corner.Write: Write your name at the top of the paper.

Sail: The captain raised the sail on the boat.Sale: The store is having a sale on grapes this week.

Sea: Three ships sailed across the sea.See: Can you see the birds in the tree?

Seen: I have never seen the ocean.Scene: The artist painted a beautiful scene.

Stairs: The room is at the top of the stairs.Stares: The girl stares at the stars.

Wait: Wait here for your turn.Weight: What is the weight of that pumpkin?

Waist: He wears a belt around his waist.Waste: Do not waste the extra food.

Way: Which way should we go?Weigh: How much does an elephant weigh?

Wear: Did you wear a coat and hat?Where: Where are you going for your vacation?

Weak: The chain broke because of a weak link.Week: How many days are in a week?

Weather: The weather for today is cold and rainy.Whether: Did you decide whether you will go with us to the game?

Who’s: We need an actor who’s tall for this role. [who’s = who is]Whose: Whose sweater is this?

Wood: My dad built this stool using wood.Would: Would you like to go for a walk?

You’re: You’re such a wonderful friend! [you’re = you are]Your: Here are your shoes.

Cent: The gumball cost one cent.Scent: The flower has a fragrant scent.

Sent: He sent a letter in the mail.

Heal: It will take six weeks for his broken arm to heal.Heel: Step with the heel of your foot.

He’ll: Dad said he’ll bring you to the park. [he’ll = he will]

Mary: I have a friend named Mary.Marry: The happy couple will marry next month.

Merry: The merry boy happily took his puppy for a walk.

There: We will go there.Their: I went to their house.

They’re: They’re coming to my house. [they’re = they are]

To: Are you going to the store?Too: There are too many flies in here!

Two: I have two sisters.

Homophoneaccede — exceed

accept — except

ad — add

addition — edition

adduce — educe

affected — effected

affects — effects

affect — effect

aid — aide

air — heir — err

aisle — isle — I’ll

all — awl

allowed — aloud

allude — elude

allusion — illusion

allusive — elusive — illusive

altar — alter

amend — emend

ant — aunt

apatite — appetite

apprise — apprize

arc — ark

Ariel — aerial

arrant — errant

ascent — assent

assistance — assistants

ate — eight

atom — Adam

auger — augur

aural — oral

aureole — oriole

away — aweigh

ax — acts

axel — axle

axes — axis

aye — eye — I

baa — bah

babble — babel

bad — bade

bait — bate

baited — bated

bald — balled — bawled

bale — baal — bail

ball — bawl

band — banned

bare — bear

baron — barren

base — bass

based — baste

bases — basis

basil — basal

bask — basque

be — bee

beech — beach

been — Ben — bin

beet — beat

bell — belle

berry — bury

billed — build

bird — burred

birth — berth

bite — byte — bight

bizarre — bazaar

blew — blue

bloc — block

bolder — boulder

bomb — bombe

border — boarder

bore — boar

bored — board

born — borne

borough — burro — burrow

bough — bow

bouillon — bullion

bow — beau

braid — brayed

braise — brays

brake — break

bread — bred

breech — breach

brewed — brood

brews — bruise

bridal — bridle

broach — brooch

brows — browse

bussed — bust

but — butt

buy — by — bye

cache — cash

caddie — caddy

Cain — cane

calendar — calender

cannon — canon

canter — cantor

canvas — canvass

capital — capitol

carrot — carat — caret

cast — caste

caster — castor

cause — caws

cedar — seeder

cede — seed

ceiling — sealing

cell — sell

cellar — seller

censor — sensor

cent — scent — sent

cents — scents — sense

cereal — serial

Ceres — series

cession — session

chance — chants

chased — chaste

chauffeur — shofar

cheap — cheep

check — Czech

chews — choose

chic — sheik

Chile — chilly — chili

choir — quire

choral — coral

chord — cord — cored

chute — shoot

cite — sight — site

cited — sided — sighted

clack — claque

clamber — clammer — clamor

clause — claws

clew — clue

click — clique

climb — clime

close — clothes — cloze

coal — cole

coarse — course

coarser — courser

coat — cote

coax — cokes

collard — collared

colonel — kernel

complacent — complaisant

complement — compliment

complementary — complimentary

conceded — conceited

confirmation — conformation

consonance — consonants

coolie — coulee

coop — coupe

cops — copse

core — corps

council — counsel

coup — coo

cousin — cozen

coward — cowered

coy — koi

craft — kraft

crape — crepe

crawl — kraal

creak — creek

crews — cruise

cruel — crewel

cue — queue

currant — current

cygnet — signet

cymbal — symbol

Dane — deign

days — daze

dear — deer

defused — diffused

dense — dents

descent — dissent

desert — dessert

dew — do — due

disburse — disperse

discreet — discrete

doe — dough — do (in music)

duct — ducked

ducts — ducks

duel — dual

dun — done

dye — die

dyeing — dying

earn — urn

edition — addition

educe — adduce

eek — eke

effect — affect

effected — affected

effects — affects

eight — ate

elicit — illicit

elude — allude

elusive — allusive — illusive

emend — amend

enumerable — innumerable

err — heir — air

errant — arrant

eve — eave

ewe — you — yew

ewes — yews — use

exceed — accede

except — accept

exercise — exorcise

eye — I — aye

eyed — I’d

eyelet — islet

facts — fax

faint — feint

fair — fare

fairy — ferry

fate — fete

faun — fawn

fax — facts

faze — phase

feat — feet

fends — fens — fins

few — phew

fiancé — fiancée

find — fined

finish — Finnish

fisher — fissure

flair — flare

flea — flee

flew — flu — flue

flier — flyer

flocks — phlox

flour — flower

flow — floe

foaled — fold

fort — forte

forth — fourth

forward — foreword

foul — fowl

four — fore — for

franc — frank

frays — phrase

freeze — frees — friese

friar — fryer

fur — fir

gaff — gaffe

gait — gate

gale — Gail

gamble — gambol

gel — jell

gene — jean

gibe — jibe

gneiss — Nice

gnu — knew — new

gofer — gopher

gored — gourd

gorilla — guerilla

grade — grayed

graft — graphed

graham — gram

grease — Greece

great — grate

greater — grater

grill — grille

grizzly — grisly

grown — groan

guild — gild

guilder — gilder

gym — Jim

hail — hale

hair — hare

hall — haul

halve — have

handmade — handmaid

handsome — hansom

hangar — hanger

hay — hey

hays — haze

hear — here

heard — herd

heart — hart

he’d — heed

heel — heal — he’ll

heroin — heroine

heir — air — err

hew — hue — Hugh

hi — high

higher — hire

him — hymn

hoard — horde

hoarse — horse

hold — holed

hole — whole

holy — holey — wholly

hoop — whoop

hour — our

humerus — humorous

hurts — hertz

I — aye — eye

I’d — eyed

idle — idol — idyll

illicit — elicit

I’ll — aisle — isle

illusion — allusion

illusive — allusive — elusive

incite — insight

inn — in

innocence — innocents

innumerable — enumerable

islet — eyelet

its — it’s

jam — jamb

jean — gene

jell — gel

jibe — gibe

Jim — gym

kernel — colonel

knead — kneed — need

knew — new — gnu

knap — nap

knave — nave

knight — night

knit — nit

knot — not

know — no

koi — coy

kraal — crawl

kraft — craft

ladder — latter

lade — laid

lain — lane

laps — lapse

lay — lei

lays — laze — leis

lea — lee

leach — leech

lead — led

leak — leek

lean — lien

leased — least

lens — lends

lesson — lessen

lets — let’s

levy — levee

lie — lye

liar — lier — lyre

liken — lichen

load — lode — lowed

loan — lone

loath — loathe

lock — loch

lute — loot

madder — matter

made — maid

mail — male

main — mane — Maine

maize — maze

mall — maul

manner — manor

mantle — mantel

mare — mayor

medal — metal — mettle — meddle

meet — mete — meat

merry — Mary — marry

meteor — meatier

mind — mined

mints — mince

missal — missile

missed — mist

misses — Mrs.

mite — might

moan — mown

moat — mote

mode — mowed

mood — mooed

moose — mousse

morn — mourn

morning — mourning

mucous — mucus

mule — mewl

muscle — mussel

must — mussed

mustard — mustered

nap — knap

naval — navel

nave — knave

nay — neigh

need — knead — kneed

new — gnu — knew

nice — gneiss

nice — niece

night — knight

none — nun

ode — owed

one — won

or — oar — ore

our — hour

overdue — overdo

overseas — oversees

pain — pane

pair — pare — pear

palate — palette — pallet

pale — pail

parish — perish

parlay — parley

passed — past

paste — paced

patience — patients

patted — padded

paws — pause

pea — pee

peace — piece

peak — peek — pique

peal — peel

per — purr

petal — pedal — peddle

pie — pi

pier — peer

pigeon — pidgin

pistil — pistol

plane — plain

plum — plumb

poll — pole

poor — pour — pore

pray — prey

prays — praise — preys

pride — pried

prince — prints

principle — principal

quarts — quartz

queue — cue

raise — rays — raze

rap — wrap

read — red

read — reed

real — reel

reek — wreak

reign — rein — rain

residence — residents

review — revue

rigger — rigor

right — write — rite

ring — wring

road — rode — rowed

roam — Rome

role — roll

root — route

rose — rows

rote — wrote

rough — ruff

rung — wrung

rye — wry

sachet — sashay

sack — sac

sale — sail

saver — savor

sealing — ceiling

seam — seem

sear — seer — sere

seas — sees — seize

see — sea

seed — cede

seen — scene

sell — cell

seller — cellar

sense — cents — scents

sensor — censor

sent — scent — cent

shear — sheer

sheik — chic

shoe — shoo

shone — shown

sic — sick

sighed — side

sighs — size

sight — site — cite

sighted — cited — sided

so — sow — sew

Thai — tie

theirs — there’s

there — they’re — their

threw — through

throes — throws

throne — thrown

tide — tied

tigress — Tigris

timber — timbre

time — thyme

to — too — two

toe — tow

toed — toad — towed

told — tolled

tool — tulle

trust — trussed

turn — tern

tutor — Tudor — tooter

tux — tucks

udder — utter

undo — undue

use — ewes — yews

vain — vane — vein

vale — veil

very — vary

vice — vise

vile — vial

wade — weighed

wader — waiter

wale — wail — whale

walk — wok

war — wore

warn — worn

waste — waist

way — whey — weigh

we — wee

wear — where — ware

weather — wether — whether

weave — we’ve

weed — we’d

week — weak

weighs — ways

weight — wait

were — whir

wet — whet

we’ll — wheel

whacks — wax

which — witch

whirled — world

whirred — word

whoa — woe

whole — hole

wholly — holey — holy

whose — who’s

wood — would

wrote — rote

yoke — yolk

your — you’re — yore

yule — you’ll

soar — sore

soared — sword

stationary — stationery

stayed — staid

steal — steel

steak — stake

step — steppe

straight — strait

suede — swayed

suit — soot

suite — sweet

sum — some

sun — son

sundae — Sunday

surf — serf

surge — serge

sync — sink

tacked — tact

tacks — tax

tale — tail

taper — tapir

tarry — terry

taught — taut

taupe — tope

tea — tee

team — teem

tear — tier

teas — tease — tees

tends — tens

tense — tents

Sentences1. ___________ the ship on the ___________. (see, sea)

2. ___________ should you ___________ your coat? (where, wear)

3. Use ___________ to make ___________-shaped cookies. (flower, flour)

4. We can ___________ at the top of the mountain ___________. (peak, peek)

5. The ___________ rode his horse at ___________ on the road. (knight, night)

6. The ___________ pie fell in the ___________. (whole, hole)

7. ___________ going to like ___________ new bike. (you’re, your)

8. Father and ___________ walk in the ___________. (sun, son)

9. I ate a ___________ on ___________. (Sunday, sundae)

10. ___________ you like some more ___________ for the fire? (would, wood)

11. ___________ you know when the paper is ___________? (due, do)

12. Mom ___________ me one ___________. (cent, sent)

13. She ___________ ___________ blue ribbon. (won, one)

14. He told a ___________ about a lion’s ___________. (tail, tale)

15. ___________ your name to the ___________ of the line. (right, write)

16. The royal ___________ left muddy ___________ on the floor. (prints, prince)

17. I ___________ you would like the ___________ puppy. (knew, new)

18. The boy ___________ ___________ grapes. (ate, eight)

Instructions: Fill in the homophones for each sentence. Bonus: Can you find the extra homophone pair in one of the sentences?

1. See the ship on the sea.

2. Where should you wear your coat?

3. Use flour to make flower-shaped cookies.

4. We can peek at the top of the mountain peak.

5. The knight rode his horse at night on the road.

*Extra pair* rode and road

6. The whole pie fell in the hole.

7. You’re going to like your new bike.

8. Father and son walk in the sun.

9. I ate a sundae on Sunday.

10. Would you like some more wood for the fire?

11. Do you know when the paper is due?

12. Mom sent me one cent.

13. She won one blue ribbon.

14. He told a tale about a lion’s tail.

15. Write your name to the right of the line.

16. The royal prince left muddy prints on the floor.

17. I knew you would like the new puppy.

18. The boy ate eight grapes.

SentencesAnswer Key

Ate

Flour

Pedal

Stare

Meat

Flu

Pair

Mail

HaRE

You

Cheep

Blew

Meet

Flew

Petal

Stair

Eight

flower

Cheap

Blue

HaIR

ewe

Pear

Male