Homophones are words or phrases that sound too similar to distinguish them.
Definition-
Homophones are words or phrases that sound too similar to distinguish them. They are also known as commonly confused words because the phonetic resemblance frequently causes undeniable confusion.
Alphabet Homophones
English alphabet pronunciation contains homophones, matching sounds, common applications, rhyming letters, rhyming words, and common errors.
The English alphabet can be difficult to speak and/or retain for many learners, either because the sounds employed in English are absent from their native tongues or because the letters are pronounced differently.
able / ABC,AD,AM(common uses)/ J,K(rhyming letters ) /pay,hey(rhyming words) / E,R( common confusions)
Contraction
One contraction appears in several sets of homophones. For instance, the words heed and he'd both have the pronunciation [hēd]
It can be challenging to spell homophones because there is no way to determine which spelling to use by hearing out the different words because they all sound identical. Given below is the list of such words:
You’re / your
It’s / its
We’re / weir
They’re / their, there
Aren’t / aunt
We’ve / weave
I’d / eyed
He’d / heed
We’d / weed
I’ll / isle
You’ll / yule
He’ll / heel, heal
We’ll / wheel
Here’s / hears
There’s / theirs
What’s / watts
Who’s / whose
Magic E
All native speakers learn the “Magic E” spelling rule when they are young, although other English language learners frequently aren’t aware of it. The simplest explanation is that adding an E makes a short vowel sound “speak its name,” or take the pronunciation of that letter when you say the alphabet.
ate / eight
bale / bail
base / bass (guitar)
based / baste
brake / break
chased / chaste
daze / days
gaze / gays
Plurals and Third Person
Few books emphasise that the rules for which of the three sounds you require in each case are the identical for both third person “s” verb forms (gets /s/, needs /z/, choices /Iz/) and regular plurals (bats /s/, beds /z/, choices /Iz/). Matching words with a “s” ending to words with similar sounds is one method for making them simple to recall. Here is a collection of such words for plurals and third person, broken down into /s/ and /z/ endings.
Apps / apse
Cops / copse
Flecks / flex
Hurts / hertz
Lacks / lax
Laps / lapse
Links / lynx
Minks / minx
Sacks / sax
Tacks / tax
Tucks / tux
Whacks / wax
Homophones with /z/ sound for plural/3rd person
Bays / baize
Boos / booze
Brays / braise
Brews / bruise
Brows / browse
Chews / choose
Claws / clause
Cores / cause
Crews / cruise
C’s seas sees / seize
Days / daze
Does (= female deers) / doze
E’s / ease
Frees / freeze
Greys / graze
G’s / jeez
Gays / gaze
Gores / gauze
Hoes / hose
Hows / house (verb)
Knows / nose
Lays / laze
Paws pours / pause
Pleas / please
Pores pours / pause
Prays preys / praise
Pries / prise prize
Pros / prose
Conclusion-
Standard British English is used to create this alphabetical list of homophones. Some words are not homophones in all dialects and dialects of English.
