Listed Below are some words that sound the same (some even spelt the same) but have different meanings.

Word

Meaning

Word

Meaning

Aisle

Hallway

Isle

Small island

Arc

Welding

Ark

Noah’s

Aren’t

Are not

Aunt

Female relative

Aweigh

Anchors away

Away

Go away

Bail

Required to get out of jail

Bale

Of hay

Ball

Wanna play ball

Bawl

Cry heavily

Band

Music

Band

Wrap/Wedding ring

Bank

Where you keep money

Bank

On the side of a river

Base

Bottom

Bass

Guitar or fish

Bean

Vegetable

Been

I’ve been there

Bear

Animal

Bare

Naked

Bee

Insect

Be

To be or not to be

Bell

Ring, ring

Belle

Female suitor

Blue

Colour

Blew

Wind

Board

Company

Bored

Restless, nothing to do

Book

Reading implement

Book

Traffic notice, reservation

Bore

Water hole

Boar

Animal

Bow

Tie

Beau

Male suitor

Boy

Vs girl

Buoy

Water safety

Bread

Food

Bred

Breed/give birth to

Bridal

White gown

Bridle

Horse thing

But

Why

Butt

Rear end

Can

Tin/Food Container

Can

Able to do

Carrot

Vegetable

Carat

Diamond

Cash

Money

Cache

Recall from memory (computer term)

Chair

Furniture

Chair

A meeting

Cheap

Inexpensive

Cheep

Bird sound

Cheque

Paper money

Check

Make sure

Core

Centre of an apple

Corps

Military Term

Council

Mayor and Councillors

Counsel

Guide

Cruel

Mean

Crewel

Sewing term

Cue

Pool implement

Queue

Line up

Currant

Fruit

Current

Now

Dam

Body of water

Damn

Cursing

Days

More than one day

Daze

Not with it

Deer

Animal

Dear

Expensive

Dew

Morning view of grass

Due

Due and payable

Doe

Deer

Dough

Bread

Dog

Animal

Dog

Annoy/Follow

Draw

Painting

Drawer

Storage

Earn

Money

Urn

Implement for boilng water

Eye

Body Part

I

Me

Fair

Light

Fare

Money Spent/Travel costs

Fairy

Winged creature

Ferry

Water transport

Father

Male parent

Farther

Further away

Feet

What we walk on

Feat

Conquest

Fete

School jumble sale

Fate

Destiny

File

Implement/tool

File

Office Work

Fir

Type of tree

Fur

Coat, animal skin

Fire

Made with wood

Fire

Sacked

Flare

Lighting

Flair

Fashionable

Flaw

Defect

Floor

What you walk on

Flu

Disease

Flue

For a fireplace

Fourth

Number

Forth

Go forth and conquer

Fowl

Bird esp. chicken

Foul

Dirty

Gate

Joined to a Fence

Gait

Way we walk

Great

Fantastic

Grate

Cheese

Hair

On top of your head

Hare

Bunny rabbit

Hire

Like renting

Higher

Height

Horse

Animal

Hoarse

Sore throat

Hour

Time

Our

Yours and mine

Idol

Some one to look up to

Idle

To do with cars

In

Inside

Inn

Old style hotel

Iron

I hate doing it

Ion

Chemistry

Jam

Spread on toast

Jamb

Part of a door

Key

Opens the lock in a door

Quay

Wharf

Knew

I know

New

Just made

Knight

Of the round table

Night

It’s dark out there

Knot

Wood, rope

Not

No

Know

Knowledge

No

Definitely not

Leak

Hole

Leek

Vegetable

Lock

Part of a door

Loche

Scottish Lake

Lone

Solitary

Loan

Money

Made

Prepared

Maid

Female housekeeper

Male

Man, boy

Mail

Postie’s here

Mall

Shopping Centre

Maul

Rip apart

Mane

Horse

Main

Major

Mare

Horse

Mayor

Council

Married

Couple

Married

Priest’s job

Maze

Get lost in

Maize

Seed

Mold

Green yucky stuff

Mould

Shape

More

Lots

Moor

Lake/swamp

Need

Want

Kneed

Bread

Net

Used for fishing

Nett

Accountancy term

None

Nothing

Nun

Sister of the Church

One

Number

Won

Congratulations

Or

Either

Ore

Metal

Pain

Ouch

Pane

Window

Pawn

Hock

Porn

Pornography

Pea

Vegetable

Pee

Well – it’s slang!!

Peace

Not war

Piece

A bit

Pear

Fruit

Pair

Two of

Place

Where, town etc.

Plaice

Fish

Plain

Flour

Plane

In the sky

Plum

Fruit

Plumb

Measure

Polish

Shiny wax

Polish

Someone from Poland

Poor

More than broke

Pour

Milk

Pray

In church

Prey

Animal

Principal

Most important

Principle

Standard

Rain

Water from the sky

Reign

What the Queen does

Rank

Position

Rank

Smell

Read

Book

Reed

Water plant

Real

Genuine

Reel

Fishing item

Record

Music

Record

Note

Rein

Horse implement

Rain

Water from the sky

Right

Aren’t I always?

Rite

Ritual

Ring

Wear on finger

Wring

Dry

Roam

Wander

Rome

City

Rode

Ride a horse/bike etc.

Road

Something you travel along

Roll

Food, or movement

Role

Position

Root

Part of a tree

Route

Direction

Rubbish

Trash

Rubbish

Knock

Sale

Love them – especially jewellery

Sail

On a boat

Sauce

Tomato, Chilli etc.

Source

Where you get something from

Sea

Ocean

See

Look

Seen

I saw that

Scene

Landscape

Sheer

Thin

Shear

Sheep

Shoe

Footwear

Shoo/Shu

Go away

Shoot

What a gun does

Chute

What laundry goes down

Site

Location

Sight

See

Slip

Slide

Slip

Boat thingo

So

So what

Sew

Material

Some

Few

Sum

Add up

Son

Vs Daughter

Sun

Celestial Being

Soul

What goes to heaven

Sole

Part of a shoe

Stair

Part of a building

Stare

Look at

Stationary

Standing still

Stationery

Stores etc. for an office

Steak

Food

Stake

Propping up a plant etc.

Steel

Metal material

Steal

Take illegally

Straight

Level

Strait

Body of water

Tale

Story

Tail

Rear end or part of an animal

Taught

Education

Torte

Cake, dessert

Tear

Cry

Tear

Rip

Their

Not mine

There

Location

Tie

Clothing

Tie

Rope (tie up)

Tire

Sleepy

Tyre

For your car

Two

Number

To, too

Near, as well as

Waist

Body part

Waste

Rubbish

Warn

Notify

Worn

Old

Wave

Ocean

Waive

Legal term

We

Us

Wee

Little

Weak

Not strong

Week

Day

Weather

Rain, snow, sleet

Whether

. . . or not

Weight

How heavy are you?

Wait

Check the time

What

Question

Watt

Electricity

Where

Location

Wear

Clothes

Whey

Junket

Way

Where you go

Which

Whichever

Witch

Black pointed hat

Whole

Complete

Hole

In the ground

Will

Document

Will

Resolve

Wine

Drink

Whine

Complain

Wood

Material from trees

Would

Would like

Write

Correspond

Right

Opposite to left

You

My friend

Ewe

Sheep