Learning vocabulary is a difficult task for many language learners. There are different ways by which one can learn new words in English. One very interesting way is to know and remember "Homophones" in English. 'Homophones' are words with same pronunciation but different spelling and different meaning. The slideshow explains in detail all important homophones in English.

1. Homophones
By
Dr. Yashwant Handibag
M.A., Ph.D., NET

2. • Homophones: Same pronunciation
Different spelling
Different meaning

3. ad – add
ate – eight
bare – bear
be – bee
blue – blew
brake – break
buy – by – bye
cent – sent
creek – creak
dear – deer
eye – I
fair – fare
feat – feet
flour – flower
for – four
great - grate

4. heard- herd
here – hear
hi – high
hole – whole
hour – our
in – inn
its – it’s
know – no
led – lead
made – maid
meet – meat
need – knead
new – knew
night – knight
oar – or – ore
one – won

5. peace – piece
plain – plane
principal – principle
rain – reign – rein
read – red
read – reed
right – write
road – rode – rowed
sail – sale
sea – see
seam – seem
sell – cell
sew – so
shown – shone
son – sun
tail – tale

6. their – there – they’re
through – threw
to – too – two
toe – tow
way – weigh
we – wee
wear – where
weather - whether
wood – would
board - bored
cellar – seller
cereal – serial
coarse – course
doe – dough
flea – flee
foul – fowl

7. loan – lone
knot – not
none – nun
pail – pale
peak – peek
role – roll
some – sum
scene – seen
sea – see
sole – soul
stair – stare
incite – insight
weak – week
root – route
rose – rows
sight – site

8. soot – suit
steal – steel
stile – style
suite – sweet
tear – tier
him – hymn
throne – thrown
tide – tied
urn – earn
vain – vein
vale – veil
waist – waste
wait – weight
witch – which
yoke – yolk
yore – your

9. days – daze
mail – male
main – mane
maize – maze
queue – cue
I’ll – aisle – isle
sauce – source
missed – mist
packed – pact
passed – past