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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 537 · 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.Which word sounds exactly like “heal”? (a) hear (b) heel (c) knot
  2. 2.Listen: which word sounds the same as “week”? (a) brake (b) grown (c) weak
  3. 3.Which word sounds exactly like “no”? (a) there (b) tail (c) know
  4. 4.Which word sounds exactly like “dear”? (a) mail (b) flower (c) deer
  5. 5.Which word sounds exactly like “deer”? (a) no (b) flower (c) dear
  6. 6.Which word sounds exactly like “blew”? (a) blue (b) allowed (c) mist
  7. 7.Listen: which word sounds the same as “son”? (a) pear (b) sun (c) road
  8. 8.Listen: which word sounds the same as “their”? (a) son (b) there (c) piece
  9. 9.Which word sounds exactly like “right”? (a) write (b) allowed (c) made
  10. 10.Listen: which word sounds the same as “weight”? (a) wait (b) waste (c) by
  11. 11.Which word sounds exactly like “sell”? (a) won (b) cell (c) missed
  12. 12.Which word sounds exactly like “toe”? (a) tow (b) blue (c) allowed
  13. 13.Which word sounds exactly like “break”? (a) brake (b) knew (c) sun
  14. 14.Which word sounds exactly like “by”? (a) heal (b) steal (c) buy
  15. 15.Listen: which word sounds the same as “knight”? (a) night (b) whole (c) son
  16. 16.Which word sounds exactly like “flew”? (a) bear (b) flu (c) mail
  17. 17.Which word sounds exactly like “flour”? (a) flower (b) wait (c) knight
  18. 18.Which word sounds exactly like “rose”? (a) pair (b) plain (c) rows
  19. 19.Which word sounds exactly like “sea”? (a) there (b) see (c) toe
  20. 20.Which word sounds exactly like “meat”? (a) meet (b) rows (c) write
  21. 21.Which word sounds exactly like “won”? (a) sea (b) sun (c) one
  22. 22.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flour”? (a) see (b) flower (c) made
  23. 23.Which word sounds exactly like “hole”? (a) waste (b) not (c) whole
  24. 24.Listen: which word sounds the same as “write”? (a) eight (b) right (c) blue
  25. 25.Listen: which word sounds the same as “toe”? (a) tow (b) bury (c) mail
  26. 26.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flower”? (a) flour (b) pair (c) sea
  27. 27.Which word sounds exactly like “meet”? (a) sale (b) know (c) meat
  28. 28.Listen: which word sounds the same as “no”? (a) missed (b) write (c) know
  29. 29.Listen: which word sounds the same as “passed”? (a) break (b) past (c) blew
  30. 30.Listen: which word sounds the same as “here”? (a) road (b) hear (c) blue
  31. 31.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flew”? (a) flu (b) dear (c) week
  32. 32.Which word sounds exactly like “hear”? (a) knew (b) here (c) grown
  33. 33.Which word sounds exactly like “there”? (a) their (b) rode (c) passed
  34. 34.Listen: which word sounds the same as “knot”? (a) not (b) flour (c) made
  35. 35.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sea”? (a) knew (b) steal (c) see
  36. 36.Which word sounds exactly like “aloud”? (a) berry (b) allowed (c) right
  37. 37.Which word sounds exactly like “sale”? (a) sail (b) dear (c) tail
  38. 38.Listen: which word sounds the same as “grown”? (a) groan (b) sea (c) steel
  39. 39.Listen: which word sounds the same as “rows”? (a) rose (b) piece (c) weak
  40. 40.Which word sounds exactly like “ate”? (a) eight (b) here (c) week

Answer key

  1. heel
  2. weak
  3. know
  4. deer
  5. dear
  6. blue
  7. sun
  8. there
  9. write
  10. wait
  11. cell
  12. tow
  13. brake
  14. buy
  15. night
  16. flu
  17. flower
  18. rows
  19. see
  20. meet
  21. one
  22. flower
  23. whole
  24. right
  25. tow
  26. flour
  27. meat
  28. know
  29. past
  30. hear
  31. flu
  32. here
  33. their
  34. not
  35. see
  36. allowed
  37. sail
  38. groan
  39. rose
  40. eight

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