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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 752 · 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 “week”? (a) weak (b) no (c) meat
  2. 2.Which word sounds exactly like “hole”? (a) steal (b) whole (c) tail
  3. 3.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flower”? (a) flour (b) rows (c) allowed
  4. 4.Which word sounds exactly like “mail”? (a) male (b) toe (c) son
  5. 5.Which word sounds exactly like “break”? (a) missed (b) week (c) brake
  6. 6.Listen: which word sounds the same as “won”? (a) road (b) past (c) one
  7. 7.Which word sounds exactly like “flour”? (a) weak (b) flower (c) bury
  8. 8.Listen: which word sounds the same as “one”? (a) maid (b) weight (c) won
  9. 9.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sail”? (a) break (b) piece (c) sale
  10. 10.Which word sounds exactly like “passed”? (a) past (b) heel (c) son
  11. 11.Which word sounds exactly like “bare”? (a) no (b) sea (c) bear
  12. 12.Listen: which word sounds the same as “waist”? (a) waste (b) meet (c) hole
  13. 13.Which word sounds exactly like “here”? (a) see (b) hear (c) night
  14. 14.Which word sounds exactly like “waist”? (a) pair (b) waste (c) passed
  15. 15.Listen: which word sounds the same as “heal”? (a) allowed (b) heel (c) mail
  16. 16.Which word sounds exactly like “their”? (a) there (b) steel (c) meat
  17. 17.Listen: which word sounds the same as “blew”? (a) blue (b) there (c) tale
  18. 18.Listen: which word sounds the same as “steal”? (a) eight (b) road (c) steel
  19. 19.Which word sounds exactly like “knot”? (a) pear (b) sea (c) not
  20. 20.Which word sounds exactly like “flower”? (a) rode (b) know (c) flour
  21. 21.Which word sounds exactly like “berry”? (a) night (b) steel (c) bury
  22. 22.Which word sounds exactly like “plane”? (a) plain (b) berry (c) sail
  23. 23.Which word sounds exactly like “sea”? (a) allowed (b) wait (c) see
  24. 24.Which word sounds exactly like “meat”? (a) piece (b) plain (c) meet
  25. 25.Which word sounds exactly like “meet”? (a) meat (b) by (c) their
  26. 26.Listen: which word sounds the same as “aloud”? (a) rode (b) allowed (c) flour
  27. 27.Which word sounds exactly like “tow”? (a) groan (b) toe (c) allowed
  28. 28.Listen: which word sounds the same as “week”? (a) berry (b) weak (c) aloud
  29. 29.Which word sounds exactly like “right”? (a) write (b) meat (c) hear
  30. 30.Which word sounds exactly like “waste”? (a) one (b) waist (c) blue
  31. 31.Listen: which word sounds the same as “bury”? (a) break (b) berry (c) knight
  32. 32.Which word sounds exactly like “weight”? (a) their (b) wait (c) by
  33. 33.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sun”? (a) deer (b) son (c) no
  34. 34.Listen: which word sounds the same as “by”? (a) here (b) groan (c) buy
  35. 35.Listen: which word sounds the same as “weak”? (a) cell (b) week (c) here
  36. 36.Listen: which word sounds the same as “deer”? (a) dear (b) weak (c) by
  37. 37.Which word sounds exactly like “not”? (a) sell (b) son (c) knot
  38. 38.Listen: which word sounds the same as “cell”? (a) pear (b) mist (c) sell
  39. 39.Which word sounds exactly like “sale”? (a) piece (b) sail (c) their
  40. 40.Which word sounds exactly like “son”? (a) waste (b) sun (c) missed

Answer key

  1. weak
  2. whole
  3. flour
  4. male
  5. brake
  6. one
  7. flower
  8. won
  9. sale
  10. past
  11. bear
  12. waste
  13. hear
  14. waste
  15. heel
  16. there
  17. blue
  18. steel
  19. not
  20. flour
  21. bury
  22. plain
  23. see
  24. meet
  25. meat
  26. allowed
  27. toe
  28. weak
  29. write
  30. waist
  31. berry
  32. wait
  33. son
  34. buy
  35. week
  36. dear
  37. knot
  38. sell
  39. sail
  40. sun

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