Homophones #2

For each word, guess (and correctly spell) its homophone.

A homophone is a word that sounds the same but is spelled differently

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Word	Homophone
Piece	Peace
Fare	Fair
Seed	Cede
Band	Banned
Faint	Feint
Size	Sighs
Sweet	Suite
Gored	Gourd

Word	Homophone
We	Wee
Hail	Hale
Lax	Lacks
Soar	Sore
Mall	Maul
Son	Sun
Hole	Whole
Naval	Navel

Word	Homophone
Horse	Hoarse
Pray	Prey
Owed	Ode
Barren	Baron
Groan	Grown
Build	Billed
Wade	Weighed
Ceiling	Sealing

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100 Recent Comments

Level 83

Oct 2, 2015

Fayre as well as fair?

Level 71

Oct 2, 2015

100%.

Level 76

Oct 4, 2015

Please accept "fayre" for fair as well (a spelling often used in the UK) :)

Level 38

Oct 4, 2015

How about "mole" for "mall" and "hall" for "hole"?

+10

Level 91

Apr 22, 2019

Ta f?

Level 80

Dec 31, 2020

What accent do you speak in?

Level 54

Nov 15, 2015

Too many options... seat, Swede, bend, bent, whores, etc. Bad quiz.

Level 68

Feb 6, 2016

You pronounce seat and Swede the same as each other, and sweet and suite? You pronounce bend and bent the same as each other, and banned and band? You pronounce whores the same as horse and hoarse? I honestly can't think for the life of me what accent would do that, but even if you do, the vast vast majority (not even just Americans, also most other native English speakers) of people don't speak like that.

Level 68

Feb 6, 2016

Can I have seeling for ceiling? Like, "come, seeling night, scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day"? :P

Level 46

Apr 16, 2017

much harder than you think it will be.Good quiz

+14

Level 86

Aug 29, 2017

If you say them with juuuuust the right accent, "avocado" and "lumberjack" are homophones.

Level 91

Apr 22, 2019

And the both rhyme with hull.

Level 72

Sep 21, 2017

What about hull as in the hull of a ship for hole

Level 75

Jul 28, 2018

What about it? If you pronounce both of these the same, then you're getting at least one of them wrong.

Level 69

Nov 30, 2017

I kept trying gaud for gored - they do sound identical to me but maybe no coz gaud isn’t exactly in everyday use ?

Level 80

Jul 27, 2018

In which corner of the globe do gored and gourd sound the same? Gourd to me rhymes with endured.

Level 67

May 9, 2024

close enough imo

Level 70

May 9, 2024

Er mah gerd

Level 35

Nov 30, 2017

And can we have hull for hole, as in the hull of a ship. I must have typed it three times

Level 91

Apr 22, 2019

One is a long O, one is a schwa, uh.

On the subject of ships you might as well say butt and boat are pronounced the same way.

"Nice boat."

"Me or my wife?"

Level 78

Nov 30, 2017

I literally thought it was oui or whee for we, I feel that they should be accepted too.

Level 32

May 11, 2024

oui is french

Level 75

Sep 16, 2024

Quiz doesn't specify that it is English only and oui is almost a loan word at this point (it's in the OED). I also think it should be included here

Level 36

Jan 3, 2018

Fayre is pronounced the same as fair and fare so i think it should be accepted as well

Level 65

Jun 27, 2018

USA: 350 million people.

The rest of the world: 6.650 billion people.

We far outweigh the people of the US, so stop tailor-making your quizzes to cater to their linguistic style only. Put a disclaimer on your quizzes otherwise that states: you WILL NOT GET THIS if you don't speak/sound like an American.

+16

Level 72

Jun 28, 2018

Most of those 6.650 billion people don't speak English at all and so would not pronounce these words in any way. I got most of these and I am British. But if the quiz is based on any particular accent maybe there should be a disclaimer but most of them work in all accents I have heard.

Level 64

Jul 27, 2018

In a few hundred years, no one will speak English, there will be no more USA, and white people will only live in tiny enclaves.

Can't wait for the updated quizzes!

Level 80

Dec 31, 2020

What do you mean by that?

+10

Level 56

Jul 27, 2018

Or...if you're not American, create your own quiz and fill it with whatever you want. Most of the people who create these quizzes are American but it doesn't have to be that way. Stop complaining and change what you don't like.

+10

Level 91

Apr 22, 2019

https://www.jetpunk.com/create-quiz

Level 80

Sep 28, 2021

It'd be impossible to cater to every single accent and dialect of English. Just use the Queen's English.

Level 49

Jul 9, 2018

Saw ends with an 'aw' sound. Nothing like sore or soar which has an 'or' sound

Level 48

Jul 27, 2018

sore and soar also end in an 'aw' sound, for nawmal people.

Level 32

Jun 21, 2021

How could you say ‘saw’ differently? Do you say it like ‘wow’?

Level 62

May 9, 2024

They probably say it like "Leviosaah"

Level 43

Nov 5, 2024

Saw should be accepted for soar and sore.

Level 73

Jul 27, 2018

Would "lacs" (plural of lac) not also work for "lax?"

Level 63

Oct 15, 2023

Lacs should be accepted.

Level 72

Jul 27, 2018

I was hopelessly stuck on Piece because I read it as "Pierce" and I was trying everything I could think of to get it until I realized what it actually said. /facepalm

Level 56

Jul 27, 2018

Just say em out loud and you'll get them.

Level 59

Jul 27, 2018

Although I got the correct answer, I do not pronounce "horse" and "hoarse" the same way. For me "horse" rhymes with "arse," and "hoarse" rhymes with "source."

+11

Level 75

Jul 28, 2018

Seriously, in what universe does horse rhyme with arse? Horse rhymes with morse, surely?

Level 57

Apr 25, 2024

Irish?

Level 71

Jul 27, 2018

I pronounce barren and baron differently. Perhaps that's just me.

Level 57

Apr 25, 2024

I am wondering whether I do. Still debating with myself.

Level 45

May 9, 2024

I agree. It's very slight (sleight?), but the "o" in baron can be arguably be pronounced correctly as it is in the word "on," whereas the "e" in barren is pronounced more like "uhn"

Level 84

Jul 27, 2018

Whores and saw for horse and soar respectively, surely?

Level 62

Jan 31, 2019

Whores ends in a Z sound. Horse ends in an S sound.

Level 64

Jul 27, 2018

For maul, I roll the vowel sound so it sounds more like (m)awl. People in the Washington, DC talk like that and I picked it up. But then, in DC, wall sounds like wawl, so I guess that's still a homophone.

Level 45

Jul 30, 2018

100% with 3:45 to go.. loved it.

Level 46

Aug 2, 2018

Never mind about all your accents. I use a baren regularly when making woodcuts or linocuts: Merriam-Webster define it as: "a pad of twisted cord covered with paper, cloth, and bamboo leaf with which a printmaker transmits pressure typically by rubbing to paper". It is pronounced the same as barren/baron.

Level 41

Feb 26, 2019

A quiz like this is difficult to be accurate for a world-wide audience. There is no 'right' way of pronouncing these words. But perhaps the quiz should either specify the region from which the accent is derived, or allow other accent specific homophones as correct answers.

Level 47

Mar 29, 2019

You should accept 'sais'.

They are what Raphael uses!

Level 89

Sep 13, 2021

I thought the same thing, so I looked it up. Apparently, the plural of sai is also sai.

Level 81

Aug 1, 2019

Give peas a chance

Level 42

Oct 14, 2020

Build and billed are not homophones

Gored and gourd are not homophones

Level 64

Sep 28, 2021

Yes, they are.

Level 57

Apr 25, 2024

Build and billed may be, but claiming that "gourd" does not rhyme with "endured" shows how limited your outlook is.

Level 80

Sep 28, 2021

OK, I'm curious how you could possibly pronounce billed and build differently. Do you pronounce it "bill-ed", like "learn-ed"?

Level 73

Dec 22, 2020

I pronounce ceiling like see-ling and sealing like seal-ing

Level 85

Sep 29, 2021

But seal and seel are pronounced the same?

Level 63

Oct 15, 2023

I think they mean they say them with different syllable lengths.

Level 73

Oct 15, 2023

I stand by this comment 3 years later. I say these words differently. I'm surprised no one else has mentioned this.

Level 58

May 31, 2025

Based on what you claimed in the original comment, no difference would be heard in casual speech between those pronunciations.

Level 80

Dec 31, 2020

Completed with 3:48 remaining! 😁

Level 38

Apr 9, 2021

Got stuck on barren/baron because I kept spelling it with two Rs 😭good quiz!!

Level 46

Sep 13, 2021

Challenging one for sure, missed Size - Sighs & Seed - Cede.

Level 67

Sep 28, 2021

Oh gawd, you missed one

Level 80

Sep 28, 2021

Consider accepting sais (plural of sai)? Channeling my inner ninja turtle.

Level 69

Sep 28, 2021

Can Mole be accepted for Mall and be W-h-o-r-e-s be accepted for Horse?

Level 27

Sep 28, 2021

I tried mole as well and wondered why it didn't work

Level 66

Sep 28, 2021

Kinda tricky, as my English pronunciation is quite phonetic. Had to think how Americans pronounces the words.

Level 85

Sep 29, 2021

Personally, I disagree that "groan" and "grown" are homophones, and think that "fear" is a homophone of "fare". But different countries have different dialects I guess.

Level 56

Jun 9, 2022

kiwi?

Level 85

May 10, 2024

Yep, Kiwi

Level 74

Nov 22, 2021

For We I immediately thought Oui

Level 56

Jun 9, 2022

same

Level 45

Mar 15, 2022

me in 2018: apparently couldnt get sweet/suite

me in 2022: remembered suite no trouble but took forever to remember gourds existed, kept trying gaud despite knowing it was incorrect for over a minute

Level 56

Jun 9, 2022

im not american, don't they pronounce hall and haul like hole? also mole and mall?

Level 79

Jul 2, 2023

Not in most US dialects, no. "Hall," "haul," and "mall" have an "ah" sound, while, "hole" and "mole" have an "oh" sound.

Level 56

Aug 31, 2022

couldnt hull work for hole?

Level 74

Apr 21, 2023

Not pronounced the same way

Level 40

Jan 15, 2023

can't believe I forgot naval and navel were spelled differently

Level 74

Apr 21, 2023

I seem to always miss Sealing for some reason

Level 86

May 24, 2023

Should accept "moll" for "mall" (as in "___ Flanders" or "gangster's ____").

Level 70

May 9, 2024

"Ned" and "paradise" definitely don't sound the same

Level 70

Jan 2, 2024

Do Americans really pronounce "gored" and "gourd" the same?

Level 90

May 9, 2024

Yes. I've lived most of my life in the southern US, and to me both words rhyme with each other, as well as with words like moored, bored, and ford. How do you pronounce them?

Level 45

Feb 10, 2024

Heil for homophone for hail?

Level 54

May 9, 2024

in german, heil is pronounced like bUYs but shorter

Level 23

Feb 26, 2024

What happened to my English? Four fails. My household was build for that ode inn ceiling the sealing. What a sad song. Had bean a bit gored bout singing in the reign den...

Level 67

May 9, 2024

*size*

Level 73

May 9, 2024

Please add whee. It's in dictionaries. And it was my first guess

Level 69

May 9, 2024

Got them all, but barren/baron definitely took me a little bit to figure out. Probably a regional thing, but those 2 words aren't homophones in the way I pronounce them (ber-ən vs ber-uhn, respectively).

Level 15

May 9, 2024

i didn't get any right i was thinking of piece of cake you know😭

Level 58

May 10, 2024

how on earth are you guys pronouncing gourd and gored that are saying they don't rhyme 💀

Level 58

May 13, 2024

i read the title wrong

Level 47

May 22, 2024

English is not my first language but I'm very surprised to see that "sun" and "son" are supposed to sound the same

Level 56

Nov 6, 2024

Hell for hail?

Level 52

Jun 9, 2025

why isn't saw accepted?

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