HOMONYMS - List of similar
sounding words
Example : Dessert (sweet food)and Desert (Land)
Canvas (fabric) Canvass (examine)
Example : Dessert (sweet food)and Desert (Land)
Canvas (fabric) Canvass (examine)
Capital (city,
wealth) Capitol (building)
Censor (Prohibit) Sensor
(measuring devices)
Choose (to select) Chose
(past tense – choose)
Coarse (rough) Course (way, path)
Complement (make
complete) Compliment (praise)
Conscience (moral
value) Conscious (aware)
Council
(Committee) Counsel (advice)
Cursor (computer
marker) Curser (swear)
Dairy (milk
product) Diary (daily book)
Dessert (sweet
food) Desert (land)
Device ( a
mechanism) Devise (to arrange)
Dissent (disagreement) Descent (movement downwards)
Dual (having two
parts) Duel (fight between two
people)
Dye (colour) Die
(perish, death)
Elicit (draw
forth) Illicit
(Improper)
Eminent (note
worthy) Imminent
(impending)
Ensure (make
certain) Insure
(Indemnify)
Everyday (Ordinary) Every day (Each day)
Exercise (Activity) Exorcise (Drive
out)
Fair (just) Fare
(food, fee)
Faze (disturb) Phase
(stage)
Formerly (earlier
time) Formally (awaiting
to set pattern)
Forth (forward) Fourth
(after third)
