Detailed Homonym Words List in English! A homonym is a term with a distinct meaning than another word but the same pronunciation, spelling, or both. Homonyms are words that sound the same but are pronounced differently. A popular homonym is maid and created. In English, there are over 1000 homonyms.
Below is the list of homonyms words in English:
| Accept | Except |
| Abel | Able |
| Fate | Fete |
| Adds | Adz |
| Holed | Hold |
| Need | Knead |
| Hole | Whole |
| Hew | Hue |
| Graphed | Graft |
| Mowed | Mode |
| Accede | Exceed |
| Mousse | Moose |
| Hey | Hay |
| Clique | Click |
| Addition | Edition |
| Hue | Hew |
| Mrs | Misses |
| Flu | Flew |
| Graham | Gram |
| Check | Czech |
| Pail | Pale |
| Higher | Hire |
| Neigh | Nay |
| Crepe | Crape |
| Navel | Naval |
| Hoes | Hose |
| New | Knew |
| Fare | Fair |
| Hoard | Horde |
| Mown | Moan |
| Hoarse | Horse |
| Dyeing | Dying |
| Heroin | Heroine |
| Nay | Neigh |
| Hoe | Ho |
| Moat | Mote |
| Hertz | Hurts |
| Hold | Holed |
| Hi | High |
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Here are 200 common homonyms in English:
- addition – edition
- axel – axle
- better – bettor
- byte – bight
- colonel – kernel
- cored – chord
- cousin – cozen
- crawl – kraal
- fax – facts
- flower – flour
- gored – gourd
- heroin – heroine
- hire – higher
- hole – whole
- leech – leach
- liken – lichen
- lone – loan
- mare – mayor
- missile – missal
- mown – moan
- new – gnu – knew
- oh – owe
- pain – pane
- pole – poll
- reel – real
- rose – rows
- sashay – sachet
- we’ll – wheel
- your – you’re
- abel – able
- ale – ail
- bell – belle
- bussed – bust
- cheap – cheep
- coral – choral
- council – counsel
- craft – kraft
- fare – fair
- fends – fens
- fort – forte
- graft – graphed
- hi – high
- hoe – ho
- leased – least
- lien – lean
- lock – loch
- male – mail
- missal – missile
- moat – mote
- nay – neigh
- niece – Nice
- padded – patted
- parish – perish
- red – read
- room – rheum
- rued – rude
- vary – very
- yews – use
- affected – effected
- beet – beat
- bury – berry
- cain – cane
- cops – copse
- coulee – coolie
- cozen – cousin
- dyeing – dying
- feint – faint
- foaled – fold
- grade – grayed
- hey – hay
- hoarse – horse
- humerus
- lie – lye
- lochs – locks
- maize – maze
- mints – mince
- moan – mown
- navel – naval
- nickers – knickers
- owe – oh
- pale – pail
- real – reel
- Rome – roam
- rue – roux
- vane – vein
- yew – ewe – you
- adds – adz
- axes – axis
- bib – bibb
- cache – cash
- coolie – coulee
- corps – core
- coward – cowered
- creak – creek
- faze – phase
- flu – flue – flew
- gorilla – guerilla
- hertz – hurts
- ho – hoe
- holed – hold
- liar – lier
- literal – littoral
- mail – male
- mark – marc
- mist – missed
- Mrs – misses
- nice – gneiss
- one – won
- pair – pare
- pore – pour
- roe – row
- rows – rose
- saver – savor
- weak – week
- Yule – you’ll
- accept – except
- ax – acts
- berth – birth
- buy – by – bye
- clique – click
- core – corps
- course – coarse
- crape – crepe
- faun – fawn
- flow – floe
- gofer – gopher
- graphed – graft
- him – hymn
- hold – holed
- lee – lea
- lieu – Lou
- lode – load
- marc – mark
- misses – Mrs
- mowed – mode
- neigh – nay
- ode – owed
- pail – pale
- plum – plumb
- reek – wreak
- root – route
- sari – sorry
- vein – vain
- you’ll – Yule
- affect – effect
- beer – bier
- bight – bite
- caddie – caddy
- coop – coupe
- coughers – coffers
- coy – koi
- crepe – crape
- feat – feet
- flyer – flier
- gourd – gored
- hew – hue
- hoard – horde
- hue – hew
- lichen – liken
- loch – lock
- main – mane
- meteor – meatier
- mite – might
- mucous – mucus
- Nice – niece
- overseas – oversees
- palate – pallet
- read – reed
- role – roll
- rude – rued
- tow – toe
- wear – where
- accede – exceed
- all ready – already
- berry – bury
- but – butt
- check – Czech
- cord – cored
- coup – coo
- fate – fete
- flour – flower
- gnu – knew – new
- graham – gram
- higher – hire
- hoes – hose
- led – lead
- lier – liar
- locks – lox
- mall – maul
- missed – mist
- mousse – moose
- need – knead
- night – knight
- paean – paeon
- pistil – pistol
- reed – read
- roomer – rumor
- sane – seine
- veil – vale
- yoke – yolk