The meaning of the words are not given the student must search for the meanings by using a dictionary! They are not listed alphabetically to encourage learning the alphabet within the dictionary.
There a many words in the English language that are spelt differently but sound the same, for example: Have you HEARD about the HERD, as you can imagine this can be a little confusing, listed below are many words that sound the same, find what they mean in the dictionary:
- Bear / bare
- For / four
- By/ buy/ bye
- Flee /flea
- Our /hour
- Know /no
- Dear/ deer
- Boy /buoy
- Daze/ days
- Pour /pore /paw
- Read /reed
- Need /knead
- Court / caught
- Real / reel
- Piece /peace
- You /ewe
- Paws /pause
- Meet /meat
- Due /dew
- Leek /leak
- Main /mane
- Blew /blue
- Pane / pain
- Cheep /cheap
- Peel / peal
- Read /red
- Course / coarse
- Sew /so
- Knew /new
- Hare /hair
- Shoe /shoo
- Raw /roar
- One /won
- Been / bean
- Pail /pale
- I / eye
- Great /grate
- Wear /where
- Rain /reign
- Bred /bread
- Dye /die
- Write / right
- Wring / ring
- Road / rode
- Roll / role
- Rome /roam
- Wrung/ rung
- Sale /sail
- Sauce /source
- Saw /sore
- Tire / tyre
- Whole /hole
- Groin /groyne
- Son /sun
- Sum /some
- Higher /hire
- Steak / stake
- Main /mane
- Feet / feat
- Tow /toe
- There /their
- Wear /ware
- Pair /pear
- Flare /flair
- Air / heir
- Night /knight
- Laze /lays
- Might /mite
- Bow /bough
There a also many words in the English language that are spelt the same, some sound the same and others have a different sound but they have different meanings, again look up WHAT (or is that WATT ?) they mean in the dictionary.
- Row /row
- Arms /arms
- Train / train
- Bat / bat
- Tear /tear
- Spring/ spring
- Tips /tips
- Band /band
- Lean /lean
- Now try finding your own words
