你知道很多单词听起来都一样，但并不一样。 它们是同音字（=“相同的声音”）。 在英语中，也有许多同音异义词，尝试学习和理解它们很重要。 我们一直使用同音异义词，即使在日常演讲中也是如此。 它们也是笑话中常见的幽默来源，并且经常出现在谜语中。
这些页面解释同音异义词并提供音频示例，并按级别和类型列出许多同音异义词。
The following list of 70 homophone pairs contains only the most common homophones, using relatively well-known words. These are headwords only. No inflections (such as third person singular "s" or noun plurals) are included. You can see more homophones in the graded homophones lists above.
| air | heir |
| aisle | isle |
| ante- | anti- |
| eye | I |
| bare | bear |
| be | bee |
| brake | break |
| buy | by |
| cell | sell |
| cent | scent |
| cereal | serial |
| coarse | course |
| complement | compliment |
| dam | damn |
| dear | deer |
| die | dye |
| fair | fare |
| fir | fur |
| flour | flower |
| for | four |
| hair | hare |
| heal | heel |
| hear | here |
| him | hymn |
| hole | whole |
| hour | our |
| idle | idol |
| in | inn |
| knight | night |
| knot | not |
| know | no |
| made | maid |
| male | |
| meat | meet |
| morning | mourning |
| none | nun |
| oar | or |
| one | won |
| pair | pear |
| peace | piece |
| plain | plane |
| poor | pour |
| pray | prey |
| principal | principle |
| profit | prophet |
| real | reel |
| right | write |
| root | route |
| sail | sale |
| sea | see |
| seam | seem |
| sight | site |
| sew | so |
| shore | sure |
| sole | soul |
| some | sum |
| son | sun |
| stair | stare |
| stationary | stationery |
| steal | steel |
| suite | sweet |
| tail | tale |
| their | there |
| to | too |
| toe | tow |
| waist | waste |
| wait | weight |
| way | weigh |
| weak | week |
| wear | where |
生词表:
a.著名的，众所周知的 (初中英语单词) ad.比较地；相对地 (高中英语单词) a.单一的；非凡的 (高中英语单词)