Ord der lyder ens kaldes homofoner. Homofoner er ord, der staves forskelligt, men udtales ens.
Homofoner – en oversigt
Den følgende liste med 455 par og grupper af homofoner er ikke fuldstændig, og indeholder kun de mest almindelige homofoner.
addition, edition
affect, effect
aid, aide
air, heir
allowed, aloud
allusion, illusion
aid, aide
ail, ale
aisle, I’ll, isle
all, awl
allowed, aloud
alms, arms
altar, alter
antecedence, antecedents
arc, ark
aren’t, aunt
ascent, assent
ate, eight
auger, augur
away, aweigh
awe, oar, or, ore
axle, axil
aye, eye, I
bail, bale
bait, bate
baize, bays
bald, bawled
ball, bawl
balmy, barmy
band, banned
bard, barred
bare, bear
bark, barque
baron, barren
base, bass
bazaar, bizarre
be, bee
beach, beech
bean, been
beat, beet
beau, bow
beer, bier
bell, belle
berth, birth
berry, bury
bight, bite, byte
billed, build
bitten, bittern
blew, blue
bloc, block
boar, bore
board, bored
bold, bowled
bolder, boulder
border, boarder
boos, booze
born, borne
bough, bow
bouillon, bullion
boy, buoy
braise, brays, braze
brake, break
bread, bred
breach, breech
brews, bruise
bridal, bridle
broach, brooch
brows, browse
but, butt
buy, by
cache, cash
callous, callus
calving, carving
cannon, canon
canvas, canvass
carat, caret, carrot
cast, caste
caught, court
caw, core, corps
cede, seed
ceiling, sealing
cell, sell
censer, censor, sensor
cent, scent, sent
cents, sense
cereal, serial
cheap, cheep
check, cheque, Czech
chews, choose
cession, session
chews, choose
chilli, chilly
chord, cord
chute, shoot
cite, sight, site
climb, clime
coarse, course
cocks, cox
coin, coign
colonel, kernel
complacent, complaisant
complement, compliment
coo, coup
cops, copse
correspondence, correspondents
council, counsel
councillor, counsellor
creak, creek
crews, cruise
cue, queue
currant, current
cymbal, symbol
dam, damn
dammed, damned
Dane, deign
days, daze
dear, deer
decry, descry
descent, dissent
dew, due
die, dye
discreet, discrete
discussed, disgust
doe, dough
done, dun
draft, draught
dual, duel
earn, urn
eerie, eyrie
ewe, yew, you
ewes, use
faint, feint
fair, fare
farming, pharming
farther, father
fate, fete
faun, fawn
faze, phase
feat, feet
file, phial
find, fined
fir, fur
fishing, phishing
flair, flare
flaw, floor
flea, flee
flecks, flex
flew, flu, flue
floe, flow
flour, flower
foaled, fold
for, fore, four
foreword, forward
formally, formerly
fort, fought
forth, fourth
foul, fowl
franc, frank
freeze, frieze
friar, fryer
furs, furze
gait, gate
gamble, gambol
gays, gaze
genes, jeans
gilled, guild
gilt, guilt
gnaw, nor
gneiss, nice
gored, gourd
gorilla, guerrilla
grate, great
Greece, grease
greys, graze
grill, grille
grisly, grizzly
groan, grown
groin, groyne
guessed, guest
hair, hare
hail, hale
hall, haul
hangar, hanger
hart, heart
hear, here
heard, herd
heal, heel, he’ll
hew, hue
higher, hire
him, hymn
hoar, whore
hoard, horde
hoarse, horse
hoes, hose
hole, whole
holey, holy, wholly
hour, our
humerus, humorous
idle, idol
immanent, imminent
in, inn
indict, indite
ion, iron
its, it’s
jam, jamb
jewel, joule
key, quay
knave, nave
knead, kneed, need
knew, new
knight, night
knit, nit
knob, nob
knot, not
know, no
knows, nose
lacks, lax
lain, lane
Lapp, lap
Lapps, laps, lapse
laud, lord
lava, larva
law, lore
leach, leech
lead, led
leak, leek
lean, lien
leased, least
lessen, lesson
levee, levy
liar, lyre
lichen, liken
licence, license
licker, liquor
lie, lye
links, lynx
load, lode, lowed
loan, lone
loch, lock
locks, lox
loot, lute
made, maid
mail, male
maize, maze
mane, main
manna, manner, manor
mantel, mantle
marshal, martial
marten, martin
maw, more
mayor, mare
mean, mien
meat, meet, mete
medal, meddle
metal, mettle
meter, metre
might, mite
miner, minor, mynah
mind, mined
missed, mist
misses, Mrs.
mode, mowed
mote, moat
mooed, mood
moor, more
moose, mousse
morning, mourning
muscle, mussel
naval, navel
nay, neigh
none, nun
oar, or, ore
ode, owed
one, won
our, hour
paced, paste
packed, pact
pail, pale
pain, pane
pair, pare, pear
palate, palette, pallet
passed, past
patients, patience
pause, paws, pores, pours
paw, poor, pore, pour
pawn, porn
pea, pee
peace, piece
peak, peek, pique
pearl, purl
peal, peel
pedal, peddle
peer, pier
pi, pie
pistil, pistol
place, plaice
plain, plane
plum, plumb
pole, poll
pore, pour
praise, prays, preys
pray, prey
principal, principle
prise, prize
profit, prophet
quarts, quartz
rack, wrack
rain, reign, rein
raise, rays, raze
rap, wrap
rapped, rapt, wrapped
raw, roar
read, reed
read, red
real, reel
reek, wreak
rest, wrest
retch, wretch
review, revue
right, rite, write
ring, wring
road, rode, rowed
roam, Rome
roe, row
role, roll
rood, rude
root, route
rose, rows
rote, wrote
rough, ruff
roux, rue
rude, rued
rung, wrung
rye, wry
sail, sale
sane, seine
sauce, source
saver, savour
saw, soar, sore
scene, seen
sear, seer
sea, see
seam, seem
seamen, semen
sear, seer
seas, sees, seize
seek, Sikh
serf, surf
sew, so, sow
shake, sheik
shear, sheer
shoe, shoo
sic, sick
side, sighed
sight, site
sighs, size
sign, sine
skewer, skua
slay, sleigh
sleight, slight
sloe, slow
soar, sore
soared, sword
sole, soul
some, sum
son, sun
sort, sought
spa, spar
spade, spayed
staid, stayed
stair, stare
stake, steak
stationary, stationery
steal, steel
stile, style
storey, story
straight, strait
succour, sucker
suede, swayed
suite, sweet
sundae, Sunday
swat, swot
tacks, tax
tail, tale
talk, torque
tare, tear
taut, taught, tort
tea, tee
team, teem
tear, tier
teas, tease, tees
tern, turn
Thai, tie
their, there, they’re
threw, through
throes, throws
throne, thrown
thyme, time
tic, tick
tide, tied
tighten, titan
timber, timbre
tire, tyre
to, too, two
toad, toed, towed
toe, tow
told, tolled
tough, tuff
tracked, tract
troop, troupe
trussed, trust
tuba, tuber
use, ewes
vain, vane, vein
vale, veil
vial, vile
wade, weighed
wail, whale
waist, waste
wait, weight
waive, wave
wail, whale
Wales, wails, whales
want, wont
war, wore
ware, wear, where
warn, worn
waste, waist
watt, what
wax, whacks
way, weigh, whey
weak, week
we, wee
weather, wether, whether
weave, we’ve
weaver, weever
we’d, weed
which, witch
whirled, world
weld, welled
we’ll, wheel
were, whirr
wet, whet
which, witch
while, wile
whine, wine
whirl, whorl
whirled, whorled, world
whirred, word
who’s, whose
wood, would
yaw, yore, your, you’re
yoke, yolk
you’ll, yule
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