70 most commonly used homophones in English

byB.B -January 03, 2021

Many times people get confused with some English words with their pronunciations. Say, for example, air - heir, eye - I, etc. The spellings of these words are different, but the production of sound is exactly the same when you pronounce them.

Yes, you are right that I am talking about Homophones!

By the way, what are homophones?

Definition of Homophones

Each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling are called homophones.

For example, new and knew, hymn and him, etc.

There are said to be about 12,000+ homophones in English. But the fact we do not use all of them in our day-to-day conversations. And it is not necessary to know all of them unless you are going to publish a book on "the complete list of homophones in English"!

In this post, I will take you through the list of the most commonly used 70 homophones in our day-to-day communications.

You could please share this list of homophones with your students, friends, and colleagues, etc. They will help you in speaking individual words with the correct pronunciation.

Please note that the homophones listed here are based on British English.

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