A
a, an; abdicate, abrogate, arrogate, derogate, delegate, delicate; abdication, addiction; Abel, able, -able; ability, capacity; abjure, adjure; ablution, absolution; abridged, unabridged, expurgated; abuse, misuse; accede, exceed; accelerate, exhilarate; accelerator, exhilarator; accept, except, expect; access, excess, assess; accessing, assessing; accidental, incidental, accidentally, accidently; acclamation, acclimation; acronym, anagram; acts, ax or axe; acumen, acute, acuity; ad, add; adapt, adept, adopt; addition, edition; adds, ads, adz or adze; adduce, deduce; adhesion, cohesion, adherence, adherents; adjourn, adjoin; admission, admittance; adolescence, adolescents; adverse, averse; advice, advise; aerie, airy, eerie or eery; affect, effect; affinity, infinity; affluence, affluents, influence; agenda, addenda, addendum; aggravate, exasperate, irritate, annoy; agnostic, atheist, deist, theist; aid, aide; ail, ale; air, err, heir; aisle, isle, I’ll; all, awl; alley, ally; allowed, aloud; all ready, already; all right, all-right, alright; all together, altogether; allude, elude, refer; allusion, illusion, delusion, elusion; all ways, always; altar, alter; alternate, alternative; alumnus, alumni, alumna, alumnae; amateur, novice, neophyte, tyro; amend, emend; amiable, amicable; among, between; amoral, immoral; amused, bemused; angel, angle; angry, mad; anguish, languish; annalist, analyst; annalize, analyze; annul, annual, perennial; antagonist, protagonist; ante-, anti-; antecedence, antecedents; antidote, anecdote; aphasia, amnesia; aplomb, a plum; apposite, opposite; appraise, apprise; appreciate, depreciate; apprehend, comprehend; arbitrate, mediate; area, aria; ark, arc; arrange, arraign; artist, artiste; ascension, assumption; ascent, assent, accent; ascetic, acetic; ask, ax; ass, asinine; assassin, assailant; assassinate, assault, assail; assimilate, simulate; assistance, assistants; assume, presume; assure, insure; astrology, astronomy; ate, eight; attendants, attendance; auger, augur; aught, ought, naught; aunt, ant; aureole, oriole; avenge, revenge; aver, avert, evert, divert; aviary, apiary; award, reward; away, aweigh; awful, offal
B
babble, bable; bad, badly, bade; bald, bawled; bale, bail; ball, bawl; ballet, ballot, ballad; balm, bomb; band, banned; bands, banns, bans; barbaric, barbarous, barbarian, barbarism; bard, barred; bare, bear; baring, barring, bearing; baron, barren; baroness, barrenness; base, bass, bass; based, baste; basis, bases; Bastille, bastion; bat, batt; bate, bait; bath, bathe; batted, bated, baited; bazaar, bizarre; be, bee, BB; beach, beech; beau, bow; beer, bier; been, bin; beet, beat; beetle, betel; believe, feel; bell, belle; bellow, billow; benevolence, benediction, malevolence, malediction; beneficent, beneficial; berry, bury; berth, birth; beside, besides; better, bettor; biannual, biennial; bigamy, polygamy, monogamy; bigoted, biased, intolerant, prejudiced; bisect, dissect; bisk, bisque; billed, build; bite, byte; blatant, flagrant; blaze, blasé; blew, blue, bleu; bloc, block; blond, blonde; boar, bore, boor, Boer; board, bored; boarder, border; boat, ship; bode, bowed; bogey, bogy; bold, bowled; bolder, boulder; boll, bowl; boors, bourse; boos, booz; born, borne; bourgeois, proletariat; boy, buoy; bow, bough; boy, buoy; braid, brayed; brake, break; braze, braise, brays; breach, breech; bread, bred; breath, breathe, breadth; brews, bruise; bridal, bridle; brief, short; bring, take; Britain, Briton, Breton; broach, brooch; brochure, leaflet, pamphlet; brood, brewed; brows, browse; buccal, buckle; bullion, bouillon; bump, thump; bungle, bundle; burley, burly; burrow, burro, borough; bus, buss; bust, burst; but, butt; buy, by, bye, bi-; bi-, semi-;
C
cabal, cable; cache, cash; caddie, caddy; calendar, calender, colander; calk, caulk; call, caul; callous, callus; Calvary, cavalry, cavalier; can, may, might; canapé, canopy; candid, candied; cane, Cain; cannon, canon, canyon; cant, can’t; canter, cantor; canvas, canvass; capitol, Capitol, capital; carat, caret, carrot, karat; careen, career; caries, carries; carol, carrel; carton, cartoon; casket, gasket; 0 cartridge, cartilage; cast, caste; casual, causal; catholic, Roman Catholic; caudal, caudle, coddle; cause, caws; cease, seize; -ceed, -sede, -cede; cede, seed; ceiling, sealing; cell, sell; cellar, seller; cement, concrete; censer, censor, censure, sensor; cent, scent, sent; cents, scents, sense, cense; cere, seer, sear; cereal, serial; cession, session; childish, childlike; champ, chomp; champagne, champaign; chance, chants; chanty, shanty; charted, chartered; chaste, chased; cheap, cheep; check, Czech; cheek, chic, sheik; chew, eschew; chews, choose, chose; chilly, chile [also chili or chilli]; choler, collar; choleric, caloric; choral, chorale, coral; circumscribed, circumspect; cite, site, sight; cinque, sink, sync.; clack, claque; clamber, clamor, clamour; classic, classical; claws, clause; clever, cleaver; clew, clue; click, clique, cliche; climacteric, climactic, climatic; climb, clime; clinch, clench; close, close, clothes; closure, cloture, cloister; cloths, close; coax, cokes; coal, cole, kohl; coarse, course; coco, cocoa; collision, collusion; colonel, kernel; comma, coma; command, commend; commence, comments, commerce; commission, omission; common, vulgar; communicate, commute; complacent, complaisant; complement, compliment; complete, finished; complex, compound; comprehensible, comprehensive; compute, commute; concert, consort; conservation, conservative, Conservative, conserve; condone, condom, condominium; confidant, confidante, confident; confirm, conform; congregation, conjugation; connotation, denotation; connote, denote; conscience, conscious, conscientious; consecutive, successive; consequence, consequents; console, console; consonance, consonants; construction, destruction; consul, council, consel; contemptible, contemptuous; continuous, continual; continuance, continuation; controversial, contentious; converge, diverge; conversion, diversion; convince, persuade; convulsion, revulsion; coo, coup; coolly, coolie or cooly, coulee; coop, coupe or coupé; cops, copse; cord, chord, cored; core, corps, corpse; correspondent, correspondent; cornet, coronet; corporal, corporeal, corpulent; correspondence, correspondents; covert, overt; custom, habit; costume, custom; council, counsel; councilor, counselor; courier, currier; covet, covert, overt; coward, cowered; crape, crepe; crawl, trawl; creak, creek; crease, creese [also crease or kris]; credible, creditable, credulous, credulity; crevice, crevasse; crews, cruise; criterion, criteria; croak, crock; crocodile, alligator; croquet, croquette, crochet; cubical, cubicle; cue, queue; cure, curé; cursed, cursed; currant, current; customer, costumer; cyclone, hurricane, tornado; cygnet, signet; cymbal, symbol; Cyprus, cypress;
D
daffynition, fictionary; dairy, diary; dam, damn; dammed, damned; dangle, tangle; days, daze; deadly, deathly; dear, deer; debar, disbar; decadence, decadents; decease, disease; deceased, diseased; decent, descent, dissent; decimate, destroy, demolish; decisive, incisive; decompose, discompose; decorum, propriety; decree, degree; deduce, deduct; defer, differ; deference, difference; defective, deficient; definite, definitive; defensive, defensible; defuse, diffuse; deign, Dane; delegate, relegate; denounce, renounce; dense, dents; dependence, dependents; deposition, disposition; depravation, deprivation; depraved, deprived; deprecate, depreciate; descendant, descendent; descent, dissent; desirable, desirous; desperate, disparate, desperado; dessert, desert, desert; desolate, dissolute; detract, distract; device, devise; deviser, devisor, divisor; dew, do, due; diagnosis, prognosis; diced, minced; dictionary, glossary, thesaurus; dies, dice; diffident, dissident; differentiate, distinguish; digest, digest; digress, regress; diminish, minimize; dine, dyne; dingy, dinghy; dire, dyer; direct, erect; disapprove, disprove; disaster, holocaust, tragedy; disburse, disperse; discomfort, discomfit, disconcert; discreet, discrete; discuss, discus, cuss; disinterested, uninterested; dispassionate, unimpassioned; displace, misplace; disposal, disposition; dissidence, dissidents; distinct, distinctive; distracted, distrait, distraught; divers, diverse; divorce, divorcé, divorcee, divocée; divulge, disclose; doc, dock; doe, dough, do; does, does, doze; done, dun; dope, dupe; douse, dowse; dove, dove; draft, draught; droop, drupe; dual, duel; ducked, duct; dye, die; dyeing, dying; dynamic, dynamite;
E
earn, urn; earthly, earthy; eave, eve; either, ether; effective, efficient, effectual; egoism, egotism; egoist, egotist; egress, ingress; either... or, neither... nor; elegy, eulogy; elicit, illicit, licit; eligible, legible; elude, delude, deluge; elusive, delusive, illusive; emanate, eminent, imminent, immanent, immediate; emerge, emerse, immerge; emeritus, merit, meritorious; emersion, immersion; emigrate, immigrate; emit, omit; empathy, sympathy; ensure, insure; entry, entrée; envelop, envelope; envy, covet, desire; epidemic, endemic, pandemic; epigram, epigraph; epitaph, epithet; equable, equitable; erasable, irascible; errant, arrant; erratum, errata; erotic, exotic; eruption, irruption; essay, assay; etymology, entomology; euphemism, dysphemism, cacophemism; evoke, invoke; evolution, revolution; evolve, devolve; exalt, exult; exceed, excel; exceptional, exceptionable; exercise, exorcise; exhaustive, exhausting, exhaustible; expand, expend; expanse, expense; expedience, expedients; explicit, implicit; expletive, explicative, epithet; explosion, implosion; expose, esposé; expostulate, postulate; extant, extent; extemporaneous, impromptu; extort, export; extract, excerpt; extraneous, intrinsic; exude, exclude; eyelet, islet;
F
fable, foible; façade, veneer; facet, faucet; facetious, fictitious; facilitate, felicitate; fain, feign; faint, feint; faker, fakir; fare, fair; farm, pharm; farther, further; faun, fawn; faze, phase, phrase; feet, feat, fete; ferment, foment; ferry, fairy; ferrule, ferule; fete, fate; feted, fated; fetid, feted; few, phew; fewer, less; fiancé, fiancée; final, finally, finale, finely; find, fined; fineness, fnesse; finish, Finnish; fir, fur; fish, fishes; fisher, fissure; flagrant, blatant; flammable, inflammable; flight, plight; flare, flair, flayer; flea, flee; flecks, flex; flesh, flush; flesh out, flush out; fleshly, fleshy; flew, flu, flue; flight, plight; flip, flip-flop, flippant; flotsam, jetsam; flounder, founder; flour, flower; flout, flaunt; flow, floe, flux; foul, fowl; for, fore, four; foreword, forward; formally, formerly; fort, forte; forth, fourth; fortuitous, fortunate; foul, fowl; fraise, frays, phrase; fraught, wrought; friar, fryer; frieze, freeze; frustrate, fluster; fuddle, muddle; furry, fury;
G
gaff, gaffe; gage, gauge; gain, gainly; gait, gate; gall, Gaul; galley, gallery; gamble, gambol; gambling, gamboling; gamut, gambit; gantlet, gauntlet; gaol, jail; gap, gape; gargle, gargoyle; gays, gaze; geek, freak; gel, jell; generic, genetic; genes, jeans; genius, genus, genre; gentle, gentile or Gentile, genteel; gesture, jester; ghastly, ghostly; gibe, jibe, jive; gild, guild; gilt, guilt; gist, jest; glance, glimpse; glutton, gluten, glut; gobble, binge; gobbler, gobbler; googol, google, goggle; gore, goer; gored, gourd; gorge, gouge; gorging, gouging; gorilla, guerilla; gourmand, gourmet; graduate, graduate from; graft, graphed; great, grate; Greece, grease; greave, grieve; grill, grille; grip, grippe; grisly, grizzly; groan, grown; guarantee, guaranty; guest, guessed, quest; guise, guys;
H
hail, hale; halve, have; handsome, hansom; hangar, hanger; hanged, hung; hardy, hearty; hare, hair; hart, heart; haul, hall; have, got, have got; haven, heaven; hay, hey; hays, haze; heal, heel; healthful, healthy; hear, here; heard, herd; hearsay, heresy; heroin, heroine; hertz, hurts; hi, hie, high; him, hymn; higher, hire; historic, historical; ho, hoe; hoar, hoer, whore; hoard, horde, whored; hoarse, horse; hole, whole, holistic; holy, holey, wholly, holly; homonyms, homophones, homographs, heteronyms; homophobia, homosexualphobia; honorarium, stipend; hoop, whoop; hose, hose; hostel, hostile; hour, our; hue, hew; human, humane; humble, pride; humerus, humorous; hurdle, hurtle; hyperbola, hyperbole; hypercritical, hypocritical; hyperthermia, hypothermia;
I
I, aye, eye; idle, idol, idyl; ileum, ilium; illegible, ineligible, eligible; immoral, immortal; impassable, impassible; impetuous, vehement; impinge, infringe; imply, infer, insinuate; impostor, imposure; imprudent, impudent; impunity, immunity; in, inn; inane, insane; incidence, incidents; incite, insight; incoherent, inchoate; incredible, incredulous; indeterminable, indeterminate; indigenous, indigent; indignant, indigent, indignity; indict, indite; inequity, iniquity; inert, insert; infectious, contagious; infidel, infidelity; informer, informant; ingenious, ingenuous; innocence, innocents; insidious, invidious; insoluble, insolvable, insolvent; inspire, expire, aspire; inspiration, expiration; instance, instants; instigate, institute; integration, segregation; intelligible, intelligent, intellectual; intense, intents; intension, intention; interment, internment; intermural, intramural; intern or interne, inter; international, intranational; interstate, intrastate; intimate, intimate, imitate; invade, inveighed; invoke, revoke; iron, ironic; irreverent, irrelevant; irruption, eruption; its, it’s;
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jam, jamb or jambe; jibe, gibe; jinks, jinx; joust, just; junction, juncture; judicial, judicious; jurist, juror;
K
key, quay; kill, kiln; knave, nave; knell, knoll; knickers, nickers; knot, not; knotty, naughty; knit, nit; knock, nock; know, no;
L
laboratory, lavatory; lacks, lax; lade, laid; lain, lane; lam, lamb; lame, lamé; lapse, laps, Lapps, elapse, relapse; largest, largess, largesse; lascivious, licentious, lust; last, latest; later, latter, ladder; lateral, literal; lath, lathe; lather, leather; latitude, longitude; laudable, laudatory; lay, lei; leach, leech; lead, lead, led; leak, leek; lean, lien; leased, least; leeward, windward; lend, loan, borrow; lesson, lessen; let, leave; levee, levy; liable, libel, slander; liable, likely; liar, lyre; liberal, libertarian, libertine, liberty; lichen, liken; lie, lye; lie, lay; lightening, lightning; linage, lineage; linear, lineal; links, lynx; liqueur, liquor; literal, littoral; literary, literate; litigation, mitigation; livid, vivid; llama, lama; lo, low; load, lode, lowed; loam, loan, lone; loath, loathe; local, locale; lock, loch; locks, lox; loom, loon, lune; loose, lose; loot, lute; lore, lower; lucre, looter; lumbar, lumber; lung, lunge; luxurious, luxuriant;
M
macrocosm, microcosm; madam, madame; magnet, magnate; maid, made; mail, male; main, mane, Maine; maize, maze; majority, plurality, minority; mall, maul; manner, manor; mantel, mantle; manual, Manuel; mare, mayor; marital, martial, marshal; mark, marque; marquee, marquis; marten, martin; mask, masque; massage, message; massed, mast; massive, missive; masterful, masterly; material, materiel or matériel; maybe, may be; mean, mien; meat, meet, mete; medal, meddle; mediate, meditate, medicate; medium, media, median; meeting, meting; melody, medley, malady; merry, marry, Mary; metal, mettle; meteor, meteorite; mewl, mule; mews, muse, Muse; milestone, millstone; militate, mitigate; millenary, millinery; mince, mints; miner, minor; minute, minuet; misocapnist, capnophobia; missal, missile; mist, missed; mite, might; moan, mown; moat, mote, molt; mode, mowed; mogul, mongrel; momentous, momentary; monologue, dialogue; monopoly, polypoly; mood, mooed; moose, mousse, mouse; moot, mute; moral, morale; morality, mortality; morbid, sordid; more, mower; morn, mourn; morning, mourning; motif, motive; motto, mottle; mucous, mucus; mulched, mulcted; muscle, mussel; musical, musicale; mustard, mustered;
N
nauseated, nauseous; naval, navel; nay, nee or née, neigh; need, knead, kneed; negligent, negligible; never, ever; new, gnu, knew, nu; news, gnus; nice, gneiss; night, knight; nom de plume, pseudonym, pen name; none, nun; nose, knows, noes, nos; nugget, nougat;
O
oar, o’er, or, ore; oath, minced oath; obscene, lewd; observance, observation; obsolete, obsolescent, archaic, archaism; obstacle, impediment; oculist, optician, ophthalmologist, optometrist; ode, owed; official, officious; one, won; opaque, transparent; optimist, pessimist; oracle, auricle; oral, verbal, aural; ordinance, ordnance; orient, Orient, orientate; osculate, oscillate, vacillate; our, hour; overdo, overdue; O, oh, owe,; oversight, omission;
P
paced, paste; packed, pact; packs, pax; paid, payed; pail, pale; pain, pane; pair, pairs, pare, pear; pairing, paring; palate, palette, pallet; pall, pawl; par, parr; pariah, piranha; parlay, parley; partition, petition; passe, posse; passed, past; pastor, pasture; pathos, bathos; patients, patience; pause, paws; pawing, pawning; peace, piece; peaceful, peaceable; peak, peek, pique, piqué; peaked, peaked; peal, peel; pealing, peeling; pean or paean, peon; pearl, purl; pedal, peddle, petal; peer, pier; pelisse, police; pen, pin; penance, pennants; pencil, pensile; pendant, pedent, pennant; penitence, penitents; per, purr; percent, percentage; perfect, prefect; perimeter, parameter; perpetrate, perpetuate; perpetual, perpetuity; perquisite, requisite, prerequisite; persecute, prosecute; personal, personnel; perspective, prospective, prospectus; perspicuous, perspicacious; perspiration, aspiration, inspiration; peruse, pursue; petrify, putrify, purify; petty, paltry, trivial; pew, pu; phenomenon, phenomena, phenomenal; physic, physique, psychic; pi, pie; pidgin, pigeon; pier, peer; pistil, pistol; pitiful, piteous, pitiable; pizza, piazza; place, plaice; plain, plane; plaintiff, defendant; plait, plate, pleat,; plausible, feasible; pleas, please; plight, flight, flite or flyte; plum, plumb; pejorative, meliorative; pejoration, melioration; pole, poll; polish, Polish; polite, courteous; pomace, pumice; pommel, pummel; populace, populous, population; popular, poplar; pore, pour, poor; poring, pouring; portion, potion; practical, practicable, pragmatic; practice, practise; praise, prays, preys; pray, prey; precede, proceed; precedence, precedents; precedent, president; precipitate, precipitous, precipice; predicate, predicate, predict; prelude, preclude; premier, première or premiere; prescribe, proscribe; presence, presents; presumption, presumptive, presumptuous; pretend, portend, portent; prevent, hinder; preventive, preventative; pride, pried; pries, prize; principal, principle; prier, prior; prints, prince; profit, prophet; prophecy, prophesy; proletarian, plebian; proportion, apportion; propose, purpose; prosperity, posterity; protege, prodigy; prodigal, progeny; pros, prose; pendant, pedent; prosthesis, prostration; prosthetic, prostration; prostrate, prostate; protein, protean; prude, prudent; pundit, pundent, pedant, prodigy; purl, pearl; puttee, putty; puzzle, perplex, bewilder;
Q
quail, quail; quarts, quartz; query, question, quest, inqiry; quiet, quite, quit;
R
rabbet, rabbit; rabble, rubble, rubbish; race, race; rack, wrack; racket, racquet; rail, rail, rail; ravage, ravish; raise, rear, rise, raze, rays; raise, rear; raised, razed; rake, rake; rap, wrap; rapt, rapped, wrapped; rappel, repel; rapper, wrapper; rare, scarce; rational, rationale; readable, legible; recent, resent, resent; read, reed; read, red; real, reel; realize, know; ream, reem; rebound, redound; recede, reseed; recitation, resuscitation; recurring, frequent; redundant, abundant; reek, wreak; refuge, refugee; refuse, refuse; regal, regale; regime, regimen, regiment; register, registrar; reign, rein, rain; reigns, reins, rains; reputed, reported; required, prescribed; requirement, requisition; reseat, receipt, recipe; reserve, reserve; residence, residents; resign, re-sign; resort, resort; respectable, respectful, respective; respectfully, respectively, respectably; rest, wrest; restful, restive; restive, restless, restful; resume, continue; résumé, synopsis, summary; retch, wretch; reticent, taciturn; reverence, reference; review, revue; revile, revel; revelry, reveille; rheum, room; Rhodes, roads; rhumb, rum; rhyme, rime; rich, wealthy, affluent; rigger, rigor; right, rite, write, wright; ring, wring; ringer, wringer; risky, risque or risqué; road, rode, rowed; roam, Rome; roar, rower; robber, thief, burglar; roc, rock; roe, row, row; roil [rile], royal; roll, role; rood, rude, rued; roomer, rumor; root, route, en route, rout; rose, rosé, rows, roes, rouse; roster, rostrum; rot, wrought; rote, wrote; ruble, rubble; ruff, rough; rung, wrung; rye, wry;
S
sac, sack, sacque; sacks, sax; sacred, sacrosanct; sacrilege, sacrilegious; sail, sale; salary, celery; salon, saloon; salubrious, lugubrious; sanatorium, sanitarium; sane, seine, Seine; sanguine, sanguinary, sanguineous; satin, sateen; savant, idiot savant, idiot; saver, savor; scald, scold; scalp, scalpel; scan, scandal; scream, screech, shriek, squeal; scrip, script; scuff, scruff; scull, skull; sculptor, sculpture; seam, seem; seamen, semen; seamed, seemed; sear, seer, seer, sere; seas, sees, seize, siege, cease; seasonable, seasonal; secret, secrete; sects, sex; seen, scene; see, sea; sense, scents, cents; sell, cell; senses, census; sensitive, sensuous, sensual; septic, skeptic, styptic; serf, surf; seraph, serif; session, cession; setaceous, cetaceous; sever, severe; sewage, sewerage; sewer, sewer, sower, suer; sexton, sextant; shall, will; shear, sheer; sheath, sheathe; shelf, shelve; shoe, shoo; shone, shown; shoot, chute; shudder, shutter; sic, sick; sight, spectacle; sighs, size; signature, autograph; sign, sine; signet, cygnet; side, sighed; sigher, sire; simple, simplistic; simulate, stimulate; sing, singe; sink, cinque; sit, sat, set; slay, sleigh; sleave, sleeve; sleight, slight; sloe, slow; slogan, motto; slough, slew; slugger, sluggard; smear, smirch, smirk; smug, smudge; so, sew, sow, sow; soar, sore, sower; soared, sword; sold, soled; solder, sodder; sole, soul; solid, stolid; solitary, solitaire; some, sum; sometime, some time, sometimes; son, sun; soot, suit; sore, sower, soar; spacious, specious; speak, speech; special, especial, spacial; specie, species; specter, scepter; steno, stereo; splatter, splutter; squib, squid; stable, staple; staid, stayed; stair, stare; stake, steak; stalactite, stalagmite, stalacto-stalagmite, stalemate; stamp, stomp; stanch, staunch; stationary, stationery; statue, stature, statute; steal, steel; steely, stele; stentorian, stertorous; step, steppe; sticks, Styx; stink, stint; straight, strait; straightened, straitened; strip, stripe; strut, strut; style, stile; subsequent, consequent; succinct, concise; suet, soot; suburb, superb; succor, sucker; suit, suite, sweet; summary, summery; Sunday, sundae; superintendence, superintendents; supernatural, unnatural; supposedly, presumably; surf, serf; surge, serge; surmise, premise; suspicion, suspect; swath, swathe; swayed, suede; symbol, cymbal;
T
tack, tact; tail, tale; take, bring; talents, talons; taper, tapir; tare, tear; tart, tart; tartar, Tartar; taught, taut, taunt; tax, tacks; tea, tee; teach, learn; team, teem; tear, tear, tier, tire; tease, teas, tees; temerity, timidity, timorous; tenant, tenet; tenor, tenure; tense, tents, tens; tepid, torpid; tern, turn; than, then; therefor, therefore; their, there, they’re; this, that; thong, throng; thorough, throughout; thrash, thresh; treachery, treason; threw, through, thru; triumphal, triumphant; throw, throe; thrown, throne; throws, throes; thyme, time; tick, tic; tide, tied; timber, timbre; tinge, twinge; tire, Tyre, tier, tier; toad, toed, towed; to, too, two; toe, tow; told, tolled; ton, tun; tonic, tunic; tool, tulle; tort, torte; tortoise, turtle; torturous, tortuous; touchy, touche; tout, toot; tracked, tract; trader, traitor; transience, transients; translate, transliterate; translucent, transparent; transsexual, transvestite; travel, travail; tray, trey; trident, strident; troop, troupe; trooper, trouper; trustee, trusty; turgid, tubid; tutor, Tudor; typography, topography;
U
umbrella, parasol, sombrero; unexceptionable, unexceptional; uninhibited, uninhabited; unique; unit, unite; university, college; urban, urbane; use, yews, ewes; usable, useful; utter, udder; unwanted, unwonted;
V
vain, vane, vein; vale, vail, veil; valet, valley; varied, various; vary, very; vassal, vessel; venal, venial, vernal; venue, veneer; Venus, venous, venomous; veracious, voracious; veracity, voracity; verses, versus; vertex, vortex; vial, vile; vice, vise; villain, villein; visa, vista; victual, virtual; vindictive, vindication; vocation, avocation; volt, vault;
W
wade, weighed; wafer, waver; waist, waste; wait, weight; want, wont, won’t; war, wore; ware, wear, were, where; wares, wears; wary, weary; warn, worn; wave, waive; waver, waiver; way, weigh, whey; wax, wane; wax, whacts; we, wee; weal, we’ll; weak, week; weather, whether; weave, we’ve; weed, we’d; weld, welled; wench, winch, wince; wet, whet; whale, whale, wail; wheal, wheel; which, witch; while, wile; whine, wine; whirl, whorl; whither, wither; who, whom; who’s, whose; whoa, woe; whole, hole; whose, who’s; widow, widower; wiggle, wriggle; wilt, welt; wind, wind, wined; worst, wurst; would, wood; wreak, wreck,;
Y
yoke, joke, yolk; you, ewe, yew; you’re, your, yore; yule, you’ll
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