Homophone Dictation

Write down two words for the one you hear (with two different spellings). In other words write a pair of homophones!

Some fairly easy ones:

be & bee

war & wore

steel & steal

their & there (& they're)

bare & bear

some & sum

wait & weight

blue & blew

waist & waste

board & bored

scent & sent (& cent)

billed & build

wood & would

ant & aunt

band & banned

guest & guessed

weak & week

mind & mined

hare & hair

air & heir (& ere)

meet & meat (& mete)

pair & pear (& pare)

fair & fare

peace & piece

missed & mist

higher & hire

plain & plane

knows & nose (& no's)

tail & tale

flour & flower

threw & through

sees & seas (& seize)

Some more difficult ones:

coarse & course

assent & ascent

boy & buoy

allowed & aloud

cereal & serial

rain & rein (& reign)

clause & claws

mourning & morning

colonel & kernel

council & counsel

knight & night

muscle & mussel

pray & prey

led & lead

pole & poll (& Pole)

medal & meddle

isle & aisle (& I'll)

vain & vein (& vane)

sweet & suite

packed & pact

principle & principal

soar & sore

soared & sword

quay & key (& cay)

bolder & boulder

rode & road (& rowed)

alter & altar

rose & rows (& roes)

grown & groan

side & sighed

place & plaice

grease & Greece

© Nigel J. Ross, 2003


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