List of twenty common homophones in English

What is a homophone?

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but has a different meaning, origin, or spelling. For example, flower and flour are homophones.

Here’s a list of 20 of the most common homophones in English:

• bare and bear
• brake and break
• cell and sell
• dear and deer
• flour and flower
• hair and hare
• hear and here
• knight and night
• mail and male
• meat and meet
• peace and piece
• rain and reign
• right and write
• role and roll
• sail and sale
• sea and see
• steel and steal
• tail and tale
• their and there
• waist and waste