Bull's
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Special Tip
: Homophones or
Homonyms
These
FREE weekly business writing tips
will help you improve your business writing.
Thank you Stacy Cotton for your list of
Homophones or Homonyms.
| ale
- ail |
| all - awl |
| allowed - aloud |
| altar - alter |
| ant - aunt |
| arc - ark |
| ascent - assent |
| assistance - assistants |
| ate - eight |
| aught - ought |
| bail - bale |
| bait - bate |
| ball - bawl |
| band - banned |
| bare - bear |
| base - bass |
| be - bee |
| beach - beech |
| beat - beet |
| beau - bow |
| been - bin |
| bell - belle |
| berry - bury |
| berth - birth |
| bier - beer |
| billed - build |
| blew - blue |
| boar - bore |
| board - bored |
| born - borne |
| bough - bow |
| boulder, bolder |
| brake - break |
| bread - bred |
| bridal - bridle |
| buy - by |
| cannon - canon |
| canvas - canvass |
| capital - capitol |
| carrot - carat - caret |
| cast - caste |
| caught - cot |
| cede - seed |
| ceiling
- sealing |
| cell - sell |
| cellar - seller |
| cent - sent- scent |
| cereal - serial |
| choir - quire |
| chord - cord |
| clause - claws |
| climb - clime |
| clothes - close |
| coarse - course |
| complement - |
|
compliment |
| cord - chord |
| core - corps |
| council - counsel |
| creak - creek |
|
| currant
- current |
| cymbal -
symbol |
| dear - deer |
| degrees -
degrease |
| desert -
dessert |
| dew - due - do |
| die - dye |
| done - dun |
| dough - doe |
| duel - dual |
| earn - urn |
| eye - I |
| fair - fare |
| faint - feint |
| feat - feet |
| fined - find |
| fir - fur |
| flea - flee |
| flew - flue -
flu |
| flour - flower |
| fore - four -
for |
| formal, former |
| fourth - forth |
| foul - fowl |
| freeze -
frieze |
| gait - gate |
| gamble -
gambol |
| great - grate |
| groan - grown |
| guaranty -
guarantee |
| guest -
guessed |
| guilt - gilt |
| hair - hare |
| hall - haul |
| hale - hail |
| hart - heart |
| heal - heel |
| hear - here |
| heard - herd |
| heir - air |
| hew - hue |
| high - hi |
| higher - hire |
| him - hymn |
| hoard, horde |
| hoarse - horse |
| hoes - hose |
| hole - whole |
| holy-wholly-holey |
| hour - our |
| I'll - owl |
| idol - idle |
| in - inn |
| incite -
insight |
| jam - jamb |
| kernal -
colonel |
| knead - need |
| knew - new |
| know - no |
| knows - nose |
|
| lain
- lane |
| lead - led |
| lessen -
lesson |
| lie - lye |
| load - lode |
| loan - lone |
| made - maid |
| mail - male |
| main-mane-
Maine |
| manner - manor |
| mantel -
mantle |
| maze - maize |
| meat - meet |
| medal - meddle |
| might - mite |
| miner - minor |
| mist - missed |
| moan - mown |
| morn - mourn |
| muscle -
mussel |
| nap - knap |
| night - knight |
| none - nun |
| not - knot |
| one -won |
| pail - pale -
pal |
| passed - past |
| pause - paws |
| pair - pear -
pare |
| peace - piece |
| peal - peel |
| peer - pier |
| plain - plane |
| pore - pour -
poor |
| praise -prays |
| pray - prey |
| pride - pried |
| principal -
principle |
| profit -
prophet |
| rain - rein -
reign |
| raise - raze -
rays |
| rap -wrap |
| read -reed |
| read - red |
| real - reel |
| respectively -
respectfully |
| rest -wrest |
| rhyme - rime |
| right-write-wright-rite |
| ring - wring |
| road-rode-rowed |
| role - roll |
| root - route |
| rose - rows |
| rough - ruff |
| rye - wry |
| rhyme - rime |
| sail - sale |
| scene - seen |
| sea - see |
|
| seam
- seem |
| seine -sane |
| sent - scent -cent |
| sew - sow - so |
| sheer - shear |
| shone - shown |
| shoot - chute |
| side - sighed |
| sight - site - cite |
| slay - sleigh |
| sleight - slight |
| slew -slue -slough |
| soar - sore |
| sole - soul |
| some - sum |
| son - sun |
| stake - steak |
| stair - stare |
| stationary - stationery |
| staid - stayed |
| steal - steel |
| stile - style |
| straight - strait |
| suite - sweet |
| tail - tale |
| team - teem |
| their -there- they're |
| there's - theirs |
| threw - through |
| throne - thrown |
| tide - tied |
| to - too - two |
| toe - tow |
| vail - veil - vale |
| vain - vane - vein |
| vary - very |
| vial - vile |
| vice - vise |
| wade - weighed |
| wail - whale |
| waist - waste |
| wait - weight |
| ware - wear - where |
| wave - waive |
| way - weigh |
| weather - whether |
| week - weak |
| which - witch |
| whine - wine |
| whole - hole |
| who's - whose |
| wood - would |
| wrote - rote |
| yoke - yolk |
| you'll - yule |
| your - you're |
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