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100 Common Homophone Mistakes

October 6, 2026

100 Common Homophone Mistakes

No. Item Definition
1. accept / except receive or excluding
2. advice / advise guidance or recommend
3. affect / effect influence or result
4. air / heir atmosphere or inheritor
5. aisle / isle passage or island
6. allowed / aloud permitted or spoken audibly
7. altar / alter worship table or change
8. ate / eight did eat or number
9. bail / bale release money or bundled goods
10. bare / bear uncovered or large animal
11. be / bee exist or insect
12. blew / blue did blow or color
13. brake / break stop device or shatter
14. buy / by / bye purchase, near, or farewell
15. capital / capitol city or government building
16. cell / sell small room or trade
17. cent / scent / sent coin, smell, or dispatched
18. cereal / serial breakfast grain or in sequence
19. coarse / course rough or route
20. complement / compliment complete or praise
21. dam / damn barrier or curse
22. days / daze plural of day or confusion
23. dear / deer beloved or animal
24. desert / dessert dry land or sweet course
25. dew / due / do moisture, owed, or perform
26. die / dye stop living or color
27. earn / urn receive pay or vase
28. fair / fare just or ticket price
29. faze / phase disturb or stage
30. find / fined discover or penalized
31. flour / flower baking powder or blossom
32. for / four / fore for, number, or front
33. forth / fourth forward or number position
34. genes / jeans heredity units or denim pants
35. gorilla / guerrilla ape or irregular fighter
36. grate / great shred or excellent
37. groan / grown moan or matured
38. hail / hale ice rain or healthy
39. hair / hare head strands or rabbit
40. hall / haul large room or pull
41. heal / heel cure or foot back
42. here / hear in this place or listen
43. him / hymn male object or sacred song
44. hole / whole opening or complete
45. hour / our sixty minutes or belonging
46. idle / idol inactive or admired figure
47. its / it’s possessive or it is
48. knew / new understood or recent
49. knight / night armored man or darkness
50. know / no understand or negative
51. leak / leek drip or vegetable
52. lessen / lesson reduce or class period
53. links / lynx connections or wild cat
54. lose / loose misplace or not tight
55. made / maid created or female servant
56. mail / male post or masculine person
57. main / mane chief or horse hair
58. meat / meet animal flesh or encounter
59. medal / meddle award or interfere
60. morning / mourning early day or grieving
61. muscle / mussel body tissue or shellfish
62. one / won number or was victorious
63. pain / pane hurt or glass sheet
64. pair / pear two items or fruit
65. passed / past went by or earlier time
66. patience / patients calm endurance or sick people
67. pause / paws brief stop or animal feet
68. piece / peace part or calm
69. plain / plane simple or aircraft
70. pray / prey worship or hunted animal
71. principal / principle school head or rule
72. profit / prophet gain or religious seer
73. rain / reign / rein water, rule, or strap
74. read / reed look at words or plant
75. real / reel actual or spool
76. right / write / rite correct, record, or ritual
77. ring / wring circular band or twist
78. role / roll part played or turn over
79. sail / sale boat cloth or discount event
80. scene / seen view or observed
81. sea / see ocean or perceive visually
82. seam / seem stitched line or appear
83. sew / so / sow stitch, therefore, or plant
84. some / sum an amount or total
85. son / sun male child or star
86. stationary / stationery still or writing paper
87. tail / tale animal rear or story
88. their / there / they’re possessive, place, or they are
89. then / than time next or comparison
90. threw / through tossed or from end to end
91. throne / thrown royal seat or cast
92. tide / tied sea movement or fastened
93. to / too / two direction, also, or number
94. waist / waste midsection or misuse
95. wait / weight delay or heaviness
96. weak / week not strong or seven days
97. weather / whether climate or if
98. which / witch what one or magic woman
99. yoke / yolk harness or egg center
100. your / you’re possessive or you are
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