Homonyms, Homophones and Homographs Lists

VocabularySpellingCity’s spelling lists will help students learn homonyms, homographs, and homophones (sound-alike words) and have fun all at the same time! Resources include printable worksheets, videos, online games, and various teaching strategies for Kindergarten through High School. Here you can customize a unique lesson to illustrate, with the help of grade level appropriate homophone and homonym lists, the differences in these words.

Homographs, homophones, and homonyms lists can bring confusion to even adults and teachers! VocabularySpellingCity can help anyone master these word groups. For clarity, we’ve brought them all together on one page. It makes it easier to learn the difference among the three types of words using the definitions below in conjunction with homonyms, homophones and homographs activities.

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How do you Teach Homonyms Word Lists?

Homonyms, or multiple meaning words, are words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings. For example, bear.

• A bear (the animal) can bear (tolerate) very cold temperatures.
• The driver turned left (opposite of right) and left (departed from) the main road.

How Do You Learn Homophone Lists?

Homophones, also known as sound-alike words, are words that are pronounced identically although they have different meanings and often have different spellings as well. These words are a very common source of confusion when writing. Common sets of homophones include: to, too, and two; they’re and their; bee and be; sun and son; which and witch; and plain and plane. VocabularySpellingCity is a particularly useful tool for learning to correctly use and spell the soundalike words.

• The toys are over there on the floor.
• The wind gust blew away their papers.
• Did they say they’re coming to my party?

Homographs

Homographs are words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings and are often pronounced differently as well. Some homographs are:

• bass as in fish vs bass as in music
• bow as in arrow vs bow as in bending or taking a bow at the end of a performance
• close as in next to vs close as in shut the door
• desert as in dry climate vs desert as in leaving alone

Currently, VocabularySpellingCity cannot distinguish between homographs, as we are unable to have two pronounciations for the exact same word. We are looking for possibilities in the future.

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