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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 536 · 40 questions
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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.

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  1. 1.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sun”? (a) son (b) week (c) waste
  2. 2.Which word sounds exactly like “buy”? (a) tow (b) tale (c) by
  3. 3.Which word sounds exactly like “waist”? (a) waste (b) right (c) flower
  4. 4.Which word sounds exactly like “groan”? (a) bury (b) their (c) grown
  5. 5.Listen: which word sounds the same as “mail”? (a) son (b) male (c) waste
  6. 6.Which word sounds exactly like “flour”? (a) here (b) flower (c) weight
  7. 7.Which word sounds exactly like “flu”? (a) made (b) cell (c) flew
  8. 8.Listen: which word sounds the same as “grown”? (a) toe (b) groan (c) night
  9. 9.Listen: which word sounds the same as “passed”? (a) buy (b) past (c) ate
  10. 10.Which word sounds exactly like “passed”? (a) write (b) sail (c) past
  11. 11.Listen: which word sounds the same as “knight”? (a) night (b) son (c) there
  12. 12.Listen: which word sounds the same as “their”? (a) allowed (b) there (c) flower
  13. 13.Listen: which word sounds the same as “right”? (a) break (b) won (c) write
  14. 14.Which word sounds exactly like “weak”? (a) see (b) buy (c) week
  15. 15.Which word sounds exactly like “missed”? (a) plane (b) mist (c) mail
  16. 16.Which word sounds exactly like “one”? (a) won (b) grown (c) buy
  17. 17.Which word sounds exactly like “sell”? (a) cell (b) knot (c) blue
  18. 18.Which word sounds exactly like “flower”? (a) flour (b) eight (c) sun
  19. 19.Which word sounds exactly like “wait”? (a) buy (b) blew (c) weight
  20. 20.Which word sounds exactly like “plain”? (a) plane (b) buy (c) tow
  21. 21.Listen: which word sounds the same as “whole”? (a) their (b) heel (c) hole
  22. 22.Which word sounds exactly like “eight”? (a) night (b) blue (c) ate
  23. 23.Which word sounds exactly like “aloud”? (a) waist (b) allowed (c) dear
  24. 24.Listen: which word sounds the same as “eight”? (a) ate (b) made (c) grown
  25. 25.Which word sounds exactly like “mist”? (a) missed (b) hole (c) plane
  26. 26.Listen: which word sounds the same as “rose”? (a) flu (b) here (c) rows
  27. 27.Listen: which word sounds the same as “meet”? (a) maid (b) meat (c) piece
  28. 28.Listen: which word sounds the same as “hole”? (a) whole (b) flour (c) there
  29. 29.Listen: which word sounds the same as “waste”? (a) made (b) flower (c) waist
  30. 30.Listen: which word sounds the same as “one”? (a) night (b) sale (c) won
  31. 31.Which word sounds exactly like “pair”? (a) heal (b) pear (c) sea
  32. 32.Which word sounds exactly like “their”? (a) dear (b) knight (c) there
  33. 33.Which word sounds exactly like “hole”? (a) blew (b) whole (c) weight
  34. 34.Which word sounds exactly like “weight”? (a) sell (b) wait (c) there
  35. 35.Which word sounds exactly like “blew”? (a) dear (b) plane (c) blue
  36. 36.Listen: which word sounds the same as “no”? (a) weak (b) tale (c) know
  37. 37.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sale”? (a) knight (b) sail (c) toe
  38. 38.Which word sounds exactly like “road”? (a) son (b) rode (c) flower
  39. 39.Which word sounds exactly like “hear”? (a) here (b) flower (c) new
  40. 40.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flower”? (a) wait (b) flour (c) there

Answer key

  1. son
  2. by
  3. waste
  4. grown
  5. male
  6. flower
  7. flew
  8. groan
  9. past
  10. past
  11. night
  12. there
  13. write
  14. week
  15. mist
  16. won
  17. cell
  18. flour
  19. weight
  20. plane
  21. hole
  22. ate
  23. allowed
  24. ate
  25. missed
  26. rows
  27. meat
  28. whole
  29. waist
  30. won
  31. pear
  32. there
  33. whole
  34. wait
  35. blue
  36. know
  37. sail
  38. rode
  39. here
  40. flour

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