| 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 |