A homophone is a word that has the same sound as another but a different meaning, origin or spelling.
The following homophones have been discussed on this blog:
- Bare and bear
- Complement and compliment
- Curb and kerb
- Current and currant
- Discreet and discrete
- Flare and flair
- Flaw and floor
- Fourth and forth
- Grisly and grizzly
- Hoard and horde
- Insure and ensure
- Palate, palette and pallet
- Pore and pour
- Stationary and stationery
- Team and teem
- Tire and tyre
- Warn and worn
- Whine and wine
If you have any to suggest, please leave a comment. I’ll credit you in the post.
Hannah McCall 
[…] Homophones The summary post for my series on words that sound the same. […]
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How about break and brake?
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I was surprised to find I didn’t already have them on my list of posts to write. They are now! Thank you.
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You’ve done pore and pour, but where’s pores/paws/pause/pours and poor’s?
What a stupid language it is.
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Thank you, I shall rectify my oversight in due course.
I think Fowler’s puts it well when summing up the paper on homophones produced by Robert Bridges: ‘His main conclusion was that English was exceptionally burdened by them.’
At least they mean we have plenty of scope for puns (if you are into that sort of thing).
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I didn’t mean it as an oversight! It’s just my favourite homophone. Can you think of any other with more than five meanings?
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I did mean it in a tongue-in-cheek way. Ooh, not off the top of my head. I shall keep an ear out!
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Bored and board?
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Thanks 🙂
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Loan and lone
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Thank you 🙂
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[…] I bring you more homophones. […]
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Excellent list! Cast and caste once came up in a history class.
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Thank you! I shall pop them on my list now. 🙂
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I love this. We’re all talking about these in my office now…discreetly of course 😉
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Of course 😉 I’m glad to have provided an interesting diversion!
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