Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 406 · 40 questions

How to say it (Same sound, different spelling): Say the word aloud — if two spellings sound the same, they are homophones. A silent letter often hides a homophone: knight = night, whole = hole, knew = new. Choose the spelling from the meaning.

1. 1.Which word sounds exactly like “hole”? (a) toe (b) whole (c) waste
2. 2.Which word sounds exactly like “flower”? (a) tail (b) blew (c) flour
3. 3.Which word sounds exactly like “right”? (a) pair (b) write (c) eight
4. 4.Listen: which word sounds the same as “maid”? (a) eight (b) weak (c) made
5. 5.Listen: which word sounds the same as “groan”? (a) plane (b) grown (c) tail
6. 6.Which word sounds exactly like “passed”? (a) there (b) past (c) male
7. 7.Which word sounds exactly like “steel”? (a) missed (b) steal (c) right
8. 8.Listen: which word sounds the same as “past”? (a) wait (b) passed (c) road
9. 9.Listen: which word sounds the same as “steal”? (a) tail (b) steel (c) night
10. 10.Which word sounds exactly like “pear”? (a) hear (b) groan (c) pair
11. 11.Which word sounds exactly like “rose”? (a) eight (b) past (c) rows
12. 12.Which word sounds exactly like “flu”? (a) ate (b) flew (c) blue
13. 13.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flour”? (a) flower (b) maid (c) allowed
14. 14.Listen: which word sounds the same as “here”? (a) night (b) son (c) hear
15. 15.Listen: which word sounds the same as “heal”? (a) heel (b) steel (c) hear
16. 16.Listen: which word sounds the same as “one”? (a) won (b) wait (c) no
17. 17.Listen: which word sounds the same as “bare”? (a) by (b) write (c) bear
18. 18.Which word sounds exactly like “made”? (a) meat (b) maid (c) tale
19. 19.Which word sounds exactly like “tale”? (a) tail (b) berry (c) sail
20. 20.Which word sounds exactly like “knight”? (a) night (b) deer (c) pear
21. 21.Listen: which word sounds the same as “see”? (a) groan (b) sea (c) piece
22. 22.Which word sounds exactly like “son”? (a) sell (b) sun (c) tale
23. 23.Which word sounds exactly like “blue”? (a) blew (b) by (c) meat
24. 24.Listen: which word sounds the same as “eight”? (a) ate (b) male (c) berry
25. 25.Listen: which word sounds the same as “meat”? (a) pear (b) meet (c) heel
26. 26.Which word sounds exactly like “by”? (a) past (b) buy (c) flower
27. 27.Listen: which word sounds the same as “there”? (a) waist (b) meet (c) their
28. 28.Listen: which word sounds the same as “cell”? (a) wait (b) sail (c) sell
29. 29.Listen: which word sounds the same as “bear”? (a) mist (b) right (c) bare
30. 30.Listen: which word sounds the same as “knight”? (a) sell (b) night (c) not
31. 31.Which word sounds exactly like “sail”? (a) wait (b) sale (c) see
32. 32.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sun”? (a) groan (b) plain (c) son
33. 33.Which word sounds exactly like “wait”? (a) peace (b) male (c) weight
34. 34.Which word sounds exactly like “sea”? (a) see (b) plain (c) sell
35. 35.Which word sounds exactly like “heel”? (a) grown (b) write (c) heal
36. 36.Which word sounds exactly like “no”? (a) right (b) blue (c) know
37. 37.Which word sounds exactly like “plane”? (a) tale (b) knew (c) plain
38. 38.Listen: which word sounds the same as “write”? (a) meet (b) right (c) here
39. 39.Listen: which word sounds the same as “hear”? (a) here (b) cell (c) hole
40. 40.Which word sounds exactly like “whole”? (a) hole (b) flew (c) mist

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