Words in
bold are
homophones
(homonyms).
1.00 I
a
1.05
in
is
1.10
you
he
out
1.15
good it
me
old
one
see
she ten up
1.20
book come get go love
time
we
car day the
1.25
that
have
into today yes
1.30
all
dog hat like and
1.35
big ice look year
boy
but
1.40
air
how over can did looking
1.45
men
red
at home
may
Homophones:
I/eye/aye in/inn
you/ewe/yew he/hee
me/mi one/won see/sea/si/C
time/thyme we/wee/oui
all/awl boy/buoy
but/butt air/heir/e’er
red/read may/May
Heteronyms:
have (“hav” v. transitive)
As in: I have a pencil.
have (“uv” auxiliary verb)
As in: I should have had a pencil.
have (“haf” half of the
auxiliary verb phrase “have to ____”)
As in: I have to buy a new pencil.
1.50
her was
are
be
going land long man my play saw toy work
1.55
if
add
away back call cowboy room cat
new
1.60 them bad came
end fat hand his mother on
read
this
sun
fun
1.65
cars food had hot part run same school show
week
1.70
cow five give got
him
house little most oil put
tea
way
night
1.75
box
bed down ago eat
feet
line times
1.80
about
ball
gave hard ran will bell
do
has
May
milk say stop
1.85
face from moon pay when bank books
mail
thing top town
wood
cap
1.90
letter
more
nut page sat save ship
so
two
dear
fish tree age
1.95
bee
June law side stay stone game hope low
pie
six tell
Homophones:
add/ad new/knew/gnu
read/reed/Reid sun/son
week/weak him/hymn
tea/tee/ti way/weigh
night/knight box/Bach’s
feet/feat/fete ball/bawl
do/dew/due May/may
male/mail wood/would
more/Moore so/sew/sow/sol
two/too/to dear/deer
be/bee/Bea pie/pi
2.00
black class hill kiss last let must
not
sand
sea
state what with am art became boat corn
drive gun
hay
off park post well went card pet nest
2.05
best cup fishing report sing after become comes
fast fire foot green head hen three
2.10 cut lake pig
as fall
hall
name
some
song without date door outside doing
2.15
just take bedroom camp
days
don’t help nice river slow loved ride
south
2.20
cent
tall war working asking cover father grow kill
left store street telling tip walk bat gas
grade
nine reading sister
son
summer tonight dad
your
2.25
calling heat word cows farm mad north us water
beside make miles rat they dark feed
2.30
ring under words
bill
city gold noon note who any baby called cave
every thank tree woods
west
2.35
bay
sick
butter care
east
happy
lay
showing stand think brown coat fox king never
older talk along
boys
2.40
yard longer lunch plant pop weeks better ear
hands homes map train someone years goods far
2.45
wall belong
rain
hour
ink lost mark move
of
outline playing rest
sent
took anyone bus cats dig
poor
Homophones:
must/mussed not/knot
sea/see/si hay/hey
hall/haul some/sum
days/daze south/South
cent/sent/scent
grade/grayed/greyed son/sun
your/you’re/yore north/North
ring/wring bill/Bill
west/West sick/sic
east/East lay/lei
boys/boy’s/boys’/buoys
rain/rein/reign hour/our
our/are of/have (when preceded by
should, could, would or might. See
footnote on page 1)
sent/cent/scent poor/pour/pore (In some
dialects)
2.50
an
list pot bring cook football luck sleep tent
why each joy
rose
snow win gum
then
mud sometime spot
2.55
arm lines cake dance lover much said duck even
landing money net open place trip glass ham
loves pages rock
bear
2.60 dress fly
playhouse bath clean rent test dogs paying seed
soon
2.65
grass race wind alive banker cooking
pen
story willing
can’t
egg
for
made
winter eating
2.70
mile near saying sport ask could dry ears July
moved sad sir stove taken things wife large
looked pan round sheep shop sky apple now
2.75
candy hunt likes
or
dates hunter names rich body gate gone lamp
meat
paper
real
around
deer
drove fort hog late nap
role
seen
2.80
adding keep oh walking yesterday bone child
handed
know
less lived pine port
told
inside spell yellow blow
bread
march small states bag boats games
2.85
hunting recall tank
would
alike doorway hate job killing kind makes pat
star being cry want toys Monday spelling
2.90
flower hats dust ill joke meal mill cool goat
key
light other reader rope rug something wet worked
blue
fine forget
our
seeing uptown
2.95
table yet also dish fill lumber market parts
seven singing
toe
blank cage count guns push rooms zoo cream
four
growing
hole
try
Homophones:
an/Ann/Anne rose/rows
bear/bare/Bayer pen/pin
can’t/cant for/fore/four
made/maid or/ore
gate/gait meat/meet/mete
real/reel deer/dear
role/roll know/no
told/tolled bread/bred
would/wood key/quay/cay/qui
blue/blew/bleu
our/hour—or—our/are toe/tow
four/fore/for hole/whole
3.00
hair
saved afternoon helping maker railroad clock
falling holding
mean
row
balls
block cakes caps harm hills jump sit spring
wish given dolls
3.05
airport hit myself case glad overcome played
send anything because brave cart dream gives
high
milking stamp tan pick start below
3.10 dime
done
income pack pipe
size
sunlight banking base danger
pray
somewhat drop everyone wanted
world
beds
buy
railway
sent
news
roof doll
tail
3.15
earth cross added baseball club maps people pink
takes were white barn cups grave lands peach
plate
sail
history
lives
rule forgive forgot funny own pigs rice short
bedtime
3.20
nail
bake
foods
form
lakes
larger leg life missing
nobody recover ships supper window fished hop
lot
road
thin
die
kid oven
3.25
live
ton cans inch master bird dinner handing
right
singer stage
used
wise banks bats flag mine awake bees
bills
cards
3.30
wash able flowers packing talking trade drink
remove reported silk bean cattle crop faster
grove horn many player snowman worker
ant
dip doors
here
saves sunset thanking eggs
flower
team
3.35
born
deep
eight
landed
March
moving sending skin sold walls wide
fur
killed
need
price salt soil sound standing
plow
rings
truck wine belt clear gay lard lad
3.40
contest
sunshine ahead himself string tenth cone deal
farming laws tops
use
cold having number somebody caves
gray
kids schools
wave
3.45
above blowing only rubber teach clay party pool
sides still washing yards bud cost full goats
lots pal puts snowball brick ever fell
grandmother log set making overlook tap
very
flat
pin
Sunday
Homophones:
high/hi done/dun
size/sighs base/bass pray/prey
world/whirled buy/by/bye
cent/scent/sent news/gnus
tail/tale sail/sale
road/rowed/rode die/dye
right/write/rite bills/Bill’s
ant/aunt here/hear flower/flour
team/teem born/borne
eight/ate March/march
fur/fir need/knead
plow/plough rings/wrings
use/ewes gray/grey wave/waive
very/vary pin/pen
Heteronyms:
lives (rhymes with dives)/lives
(rhymes with gives) live
(rhymes with dive)/live
(rhymes with give) used
(rhymes with oozed)/used to
(rhymes with boost to) contest
(n. KAH’n test)/contest (v.
kun TEST) use(v. rhymes
with ooze)/use (n. rhymes with
juice)
3.50 dated draw ranch teacher leave
lock
office pies towns bark before broke ending
ends gift nearly sang
by
crow didn’t girls giving homesick
wee
hide later looks shine eats wishing
3.55
please
fight girl point wire wool frog miss phone
rested streets
tire
houses understand wing burn driver safe smart
somehow sorry bars beach delay golden jar
3.60 act rate hits order always
learn person ducks farmer getting hopes ready
sixteen stars teaching ape
ate
eye
helped prove tie trick yourself apart bells fit
load
thanks
where
beat
den finger harder
dam
tooth
3.65 bright power trust depart
change neck rail rented
shoe
should army found garden lap nothing sailing
shipment smoke
turn
hours
pole
reach rush shore wings pup grand leaves plants
3.70 brand crossing lasted paint
zone bent country finding grain
nose
rivers seat space
sweet
than
trains beans
cash
cents
colder dislike early lord mice pans path pulling
sometimes sports study trail booklet lack
moonlight places remark
sale
vine coats
hear
roads bend October pleased
3.75 snowing headed once passing
posted faces strong tin daylight ground mouse
plan unhappy drinking aside
3.80 covering almost bunch true
becomes clubs mouth playmate return showed
anybody birds bride cheer nights pump wax wild
mailed reports bags close neat pull asleep fan
3.85 next unable chair file flow
numbers tar behind
great
unlike whatever
ants
first grape hardly longest
pain
queen steam within ages anywhere beast like
mailing jack
find
3.90 postmaster payment blood export
forever grey kindly teeth battle discount
horse
lovely oldest ox holes sack spend spoke stamps
tool trips however itself rag rainbow smile
traps unless camping forest rides runs swing
eyes
meet
3.95 lip letters notes rub cooked
ended keeping named arms bet dart dot few
keys
laying lights reporting works chart handy heads
helps
inn
notebook apples damp fear
hold
horns
there
songs hogs
Homophones:
lock/loch/lough by/bye/buy/bi we/wee/oui
please/pleas tire/tyre ate/eight eye/I/aye
load/lode/lowed where/wear beat/beet
dam/damn shoe/shoo turn/tern pole/poll
hours/ours nose/knows sweet/suite than/then
cash/cache cents/sense/scents sale/sail
hear/here nights/knights wax/whacks
great/grate ants/aunts pain/pane/Payne
find/fined horse/hoarse eyes/ayes
meet/meat/mete keys/quays/cays in/inn
hold/holed there/they’re/their
Heteronyms:
close (v. rhymes with hose)/close
(adj. rhymes with dose)
4.00
half
mankind brother self staying voted driven
floor selling tons dead falls print soft
stands removed tag living mat shout tone
walked everyday
4.05
rained
fix listed brings herself largest rang sin wheat
both carry dash inches stated wells keeps lesson
matter member
reads
replace
shoes
sooner
ways
legs means rolling storm boot
coal
lead
pony
4.10 votes bugs church desk covered
dressing fireplace planting sets shape tables
warm clocks kitten
pair
swim belonging
mix
rules sank thinking handle
marks
Miss
4.15 display leading planted reward
rains
suit center lime score smaller stuck bottle
hearing kinds overlooked press
sons
(any more)
gets indoors mate picking putting southwest
ringing
sings tame starting hut
4.20 western died grant soap young
another feeds parted shell jumps
main
sixty
tears
death jumping somewhere waters across awoke
lets
anyway
raining
to
cannot penny
4.25 charge whenever cape leader
roses
bears
copper cutting everybody sink task track upset
wooden branch broken farmers filling ray these
bush frank spark tells everything mixed skins
trunk carts rather schoolhouse taking cast lark
papers
4.30 speed boss protest rear cares
dressed fellow ripe thick catch grades outfit
season trace
weak
airplane bless crown picked tide cuts hanging
started
needed
roll
wagon lady
4.35
pea
pounds saving beef players
sum
bands
navy plates slip
weed
fire offer thankful wanting dozen hoped
hose
meeting puppy wake covers eaten wheel bond hens
rake
4.40 belongs twin December sidewalk
teams basket rushing thinks woke
won
boots flock glove hike others outstanding clown
easy hang happen pond restore seeds spoon step
asked blind pass sisters trap
no
sleeps April
4.45 quart sounds table besides dug
hell lies lips pulled treat welcome workers
dresser dresses event fool fork grandfather
helpful
jail
leap morning arrow
aunt
dame lamps
plane
stick bit drying meals snowed
Homophones:
half/have (You have to give half
to me) rained/reigned/reined
reads/reeds/Reid’s shoes/shoos coal/Cole
meet/meat/mete keys/quays/cays in/inn
hold/holed there/they’re/their lead/led
pair/pear/pare mix/Mick’s marks/Marx
Miss/miss anymore/any more
rains/reins/reigns sons/suns died/dyed
main/Maine/mane tears/tiers lets/let’s
to/too/two bears/bares weak/week tide/tied
needed/kneaded roll/role pea/pee sum/some
bands/bans weed/we’d hose/hoes teams/teems
won/one no/know jail/gaol morning/mourning
aunt/ant
Heteronyms:
lead (v. rhymes with bead)/lead
(n. rhymes with bed) tears
(n. rhymes with cheers)/tears
(v. rhymes with cares)
4.50 washed between flame painted pure
seventeen booked
check
cookies oats owl pens badly driving holder
sharp such cabin opens noise
seem
thanked
cane
farms
God
outdoors Friday mothers
4.55 anyhow fully stones hunted
leaving stock trying dishes higher strange
fallen felt goes grace kick November persons
proved readers sixth tender tiny tribe cotton
daddy fifty
shall
tower bull
earn
jars northwest opening
4.60 payments range teachers
clearing dances snake behold drawing fame
printed helpless newspaper temper bathing bones
sheet logs
pains
rugs flying smell
4.65 fee
grown
relate beloved enjoy understanding
heart
mostly mount blanks blocks closed jolly likewise
plays stream
bow
jacks twenty kits brain
sell
4.70
needs
bound cleaning deck highway ocean parks pipes
sailed crops rank spending
bite
bought
alone
buying pant shows tiger department
4.75 points
been
heard
wrote
cases crime spoil whoever again boxes charm
furs
pins
shot undertake acting goodness knife melt mend
monkey printing races sizes skip brush uncle
sheets
4.80
content
brothers children discover fingers
might
movies ticket
lean
loud seats together windmill board hung marked
nails pillow
pride
reached watched dine lucky sleeping feeding
silly stores indeed yours
4.85 drum gloves loving turned wrong
flash feast steamer hardest
I’ll
cleaned crossed join dandy dirt drinks lion
maid
4.90
per
junk coin glow raw belonged classes dreams
learned counting lift
none
overshoes pointed brought
build
building hurt locked rocks snowballs wasn’t wore
birthday fact letting seal setting shade tools
twice wished ones
4.95 placed movement burning changes
health tray counted fail kisses members picture
refuse
sounded swings began begun brass mills slowly
sunny
fathers I’m invite jelly renew shame straw
dollar
poles
September shirt
weekly
listing
Homophones:
check/cheque seem/seam cane/Cain God/god
shall/shell earn/urn pains/panes/Payne’s
heart/hart grown/groan bow/Bo/beau bow/bough
sell/cell needs/kneads bite/byte alone/(a
loan) been/bin heard/herd wrote/rote
furs/firs might/mite lean/lien pride/pried
I’ll/isle/aisle maid/made per/purr none/nun
build/billed sunny/Sonny poles/polls
weekly/weakly
Heteronyms:
bow (n. rhymes with go)/bow (v. rhymes with
cow)
content (v. kun TEN’t)/content
(n. KAH’n tent)
refuse (v. ree f’YOOz)/refuse
(n. (REF f’yooz)
5.00 reaching invited kindness wipe
chicken glasses meantime police wedding
evening ours pile strings untie hind
lone
while beg carload follow iron pocket cared
eve walks wolf gallon ford schoolmate
fighting stump bench delight county
5.05 plans posters quick remarks
robe spear
already
hairs
laugh maple meaning rod doctor
sewing
tires wed her wires maybe wonder
5.10 nation hated cause
knew
lace notebooks least partly running those upward
weeds bigger eighteen filled fixed
plain
prices youth
fence
honey rushed
whole
peas
flew
hurry hammer snows
pail
tents
5.15 group powers island remain
retail sample talks address crash drunk host
raise
wired bottom clouds
cord
nor passes roast sticks alarm chop
peace
sitting I’ve sort torn bob
5.20
tax
tune contain globe sugar fold folder he’s jokes
wants feel stood returning inform lend cloud
lane
5.25 owner danced drain program
aid
amount basement fright spoons glance ruler share
agree bushes
packed
thought turning watered wheels calls kittens
floors loads slide
5.30 scout drug postage import slice
dew
railroads hello shortly forms lawn blame blast
blues harvest hollow
lamb
painful peaches
stair
starts cloth frost lined soup
5.35 eastern improve skill dearest
friend express
rack
silver
ax
breath chairs lowest
record
shipments arrows beating hundred
sake
talked worry
write
basketball instead lump gather opened
5.40 chapter station boil
facts
tube upper barks cleared
color
loaded stamped wishes seals shades acted stunt
windows
sew
tore
5.45 rates booklets failed held
nurse painter phoned travel stranger withdraw
files hotel otherwise pasture
wait
baked drill nature noted tend
weather
changing dreamed everywhere
uses
warmed dolly
stayed
mind
coming
Homophones:
lone/loan hairs/hares sewing/sowing
tires/tyres knew/new/gnu plain/plane
fence/Fent’s whole/hole peas/pees
flew/flu/flue pail/pale tents/tense
raise/rays/raze cord/chord/cored peace/piece
tax/tacks lane/lain aid/aide packed/pact
dew/do/due lamb/lam stair/stare rack/wrack
ax/axe write/rite/right/wright
facts/fax color/colour sew/sow/so/sol
wait/weight weather/whether stayed/staid
mind/mined
Heteronyms:
address (n. ADD dress)/address
(v. uh DRESS)
record (v. ree KOH’r-d)/record
(n. REK kurd)
sake (SAY’k)/sake
(SAH kay)
uses (n. YOO sis)/uses
(v. YOO ziz)
5.50 oak shower worms zero snap third
bitter changed greet robin thousand steps
dull hook coast platform remind shut throw
timber heap moreover waiting till
it’s
5.55 charges drag highest tasted
blade enjoying sickness statement trouble demand
dollars enjoyed grapes midnight sliding
which
gardens isn’t stories month pays
arose
riding
5.60 pretty nearest baskets cable
frozen proper visit huge nearer spoken stocking
dare eleven sure teaspoon
chance
cheap
grounds
bases
battles
does
trucks lame rage
waited
mule
5.65 votes notice vast bid bunk
narrow
records
younger depend family grows nicely orders
windmills china darling front
sales
strongly comb float jumped o’clock thus middle
tired
5.70 music burned freedom mistake
plenty prevent depending strip speaking united
chest enter fourteen rise seventy shirts crack
rabbit
turns
becoming stronger training wondering haven’t
sadly outlined billing
5.75 taxes trusting soda voice
charming seventh feather freely skate stays beam
friends marched calf farther clothing wonderful
rode
won’t
5.80
climb
expert
faint
gang gulf backward copy devote fellows keeper
sign
pushed treated careful
creek
duty grew worth film fisherman greatly speak
eighty
hail
happens steep Easter
5.85
subject
charged cashed drift expect aim fry cherry stops
teaches arch deed dirty reaches leather spit
root
5.90 carried built chicks detail
simple reason uncles closer deeds
draft
owned repair
rights
bringing
greater
household render fruit split carpet smoking unto
absent baking bottles busy fortnight
5.95 rolled whom darkness truth lazy
capture fifth proud justly skirt arithmetic odd
retire candle
Homophones:
it's/its which/witch arose/(a rose)
chants/chance cheap/cheep bases/basses/basis
does/Duz does/doze waited/weighted
sales/sails turns/terns rode/road/rowed
climb/clime faint/feint sign/sine
creek/creak hail/hale draft/draught
rights/writes/rites/Wright's greater/grater
Heteronyms:
records (v. ree KOH’r-dz)/records
(n. REK kurdz)
subject (n. SUB jekt)/subject
(v. sub JEK’t)
6.00 court frame movie married plus
while package
waste
finish title ashes
hoe
keen ordering reform
sore
roots shoot anger porch
seems
shells
6.05 value elect former thunder
chase starve froze departments numbered rip
settle risk
sees
6.10 canning informing bucket melted
blanket checking differ officer
steal
formed
missed
northwestern tight
berry
chat
hearts
muddy yell finest fresh trained
worn
deliver oxen candles horseback
6.15 devoted contract impart shouted
understood ladies manage gladly returned trim
background folks nineteen windy women knowing
camel nests rob
sight
handles lighted dim
prize
6.20 invented lightly
male
orange southern greatest chum native agent
lively replaced kept purple temple begin
stairs
weave offers visited
raised
swell mar
6.25
knows
tickets lambs sob catching lately recovered
steel
flood
meets
spread mob upstairs inasmuch bike bother
nevertheless shaped
leads
6.30 action pictures locate granted
idea branches clearly company
blew
button following invent retain forty fought
preach January
6.35 northern compose gained
offering lawns
prints
retreat strongest winning jaw moment pleasing
beard caused chain enough highly
owe
sudden swift namely turkey pudding sits stole
scare tests wage worm feeling (ice
cream)
6.40 nations hardware
solo
matters remaining radio tablet olive binding
mountain softly useful
pairs
learning perhaps sharpen Tuesday else painting
shake
visiting edge hiding
6.45
object
active during square bolt extra coffee crazy
mist
powerful poem watching closing tribes rim sends
answer dancing likely buildings
dairy
fears
marry
suffer
holy
Homophones:
while/wile/awhile waste/waist hoe/ho sore/soar
seems/seams sees/seas/seize missed/mist
sight/cite/site prize/pries male/mail
stares/stairs raised/razed knows/nose/no's
steel/steal/Stihl meets/meats/metes
blew/blue/bleu prints/prince owe/oh
solo/so low pairs/pears/pares mist/missed
marry/merry/Mary holy/wholly/holey
Heteronyms:
leads ("LEEDZ") -- opposite
of follows. When it is pronounced "LEDZ"
as in pencil leads, the difficulty factor is
higher.
object ("AHB jekt") -- that which
is aimed at or desired. When the word is
pronounced ("ub JEKT") meaning to disagree, the
difficulty factor is slightly higher.
6.50
golf
overcharge spears cheaper request
acts
couldn't filed pitch linger meanwhile slope
gain horses remember worse hooks pants
marble hasn't obey puff thirty ladder corner
writing
6.55 telephone
labor
seasons charging union glory goose rulers
membership mild cities hobby pleases
vain
plum
tale
hug lessons
lie
6.60 ideal favor priced counter
towel friendship hotels necks exchange knee
dealing polite airplanes guess bids sway returns
thereby throwing ought hunger
prince
hers
6.65 location skates degree bonds
natives provide
checks
ease
joint fearful graders chickens proven repeat
birth brains often seemed pending quilt
past
tracks
twelve deeply
finds
rabbits says
wear
6.70 located known treatment empty
kingdom boards flashlight gifts heaven kettle
standpoint suits bind hid silent
6.75 product question cement romance
flight babies coach cheering refund blessing
expose
sized level needless
pour
caught flour stating
whale
catches fade pa good-night
6.80 damage savage
dues
matches second
excuse
hopeful stuff touch apron latest ma shovel
we'll
grim tumble ugly link single speaker taste
newspapers
sacks