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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 854 · 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 “maid”? (a) made (b) flew (c) right
  2. 2.Listen: which word sounds the same as “steal”? (a) steel (b) mail (c) night
  3. 3.Listen: which word sounds the same as “plane”? (a) toe (b) by (c) plain
  4. 4.Listen: which word sounds the same as “made”? (a) peace (b) maid (c) flour
  5. 5.Which word sounds exactly like “bare”? (a) maid (b) tale (c) bear
  6. 6.Which word sounds exactly like “flour”? (a) night (b) flower (c) meet
  7. 7.Which word sounds exactly like “son”? (a) ate (b) sun (c) passed
  8. 8.Which word sounds exactly like “groan”? (a) blew (b) grown (c) no
  9. 9.Which word sounds exactly like “know”? (a) no (b) son (c) mail
  10. 10.Listen: which word sounds the same as “knot”? (a) flower (b) not (c) weak
  11. 11.Listen: which word sounds the same as “weight”? (a) groan (b) wait (c) rose
  12. 12.Which word sounds exactly like “weak”? (a) passed (b) week (c) sea
  13. 13.Which word sounds exactly like “aloud”? (a) toe (b) allowed (c) sell
  14. 14.Listen: which word sounds the same as “past”? (a) sell (b) allowed (c) passed
  15. 15.Listen: which word sounds the same as “piece”? (a) plane (b) rows (c) peace
  16. 16.Which word sounds exactly like “plain”? (a) knot (b) toe (c) plane
  17. 17.Which word sounds exactly like “one”? (a) buy (b) plain (c) won
  18. 18.Listen: which word sounds the same as “hole”? (a) whole (b) break (c) see
  19. 19.Which word sounds exactly like “tail”? (a) mail (b) tale (c) meat
  20. 20.Which word sounds exactly like “male”? (a) deer (b) mail (c) week
  21. 21.Listen: which word sounds the same as “eight”? (a) ate (b) their (c) blue
  22. 22.Which word sounds exactly like “plane”? (a) bear (b) plain (c) made
  23. 23.Listen: which word sounds the same as “see”? (a) sea (b) past (c) rode
  24. 24.Which word sounds exactly like “weight”? (a) see (b) wait (c) hole
  25. 25.Listen: which word sounds the same as “passed”? (a) rose (b) past (c) male
  26. 26.Which word sounds exactly like “peace”? (a) past (b) weight (c) piece
  27. 27.Listen: which word sounds the same as “pair”? (a) bear (b) pear (c) by
  28. 28.Listen: which word sounds the same as “peace”? (a) buy (b) piece (c) waste
  29. 29.Listen: which word sounds the same as “weak”? (a) grown (b) week (c) waist
  30. 30.Which word sounds exactly like “there”? (a) write (b) rode (c) their
  31. 31.Which word sounds exactly like “right”? (a) write (b) sea (c) blew
  32. 32.Listen: which word sounds the same as “rose”? (a) tow (b) won (c) rows
  33. 33.Which word sounds exactly like “whole”? (a) flour (b) son (c) hole
  34. 34.Which word sounds exactly like “flu”? (a) eight (b) brake (c) flew
  35. 35.Listen: which word sounds the same as “berry”? (a) right (b) pair (c) bury
  36. 36.Listen: which word sounds the same as “mail”? (a) male (b) rose (c) bear
  37. 37.Which word sounds exactly like “tow”? (a) new (b) there (c) toe
  38. 38.Which word sounds exactly like “rose”? (a) rows (b) flew (c) son
  39. 39.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sell”? (a) here (b) cell (c) week
  40. 40.Which word sounds exactly like “cell”? (a) bury (b) meat (c) sell

Answer key

  1. made
  2. steel
  3. plain
  4. maid
  5. bear
  6. flower
  7. sun
  8. grown
  9. no
  10. not
  11. wait
  12. week
  13. allowed
  14. passed
  15. peace
  16. plane
  17. won
  18. whole
  19. tale
  20. mail
  21. ate
  22. plain
  23. sea
  24. wait
  25. past
  26. piece
  27. pear
  28. piece
  29. week
  30. their
  31. write
  32. rows
  33. hole
  34. flew
  35. bury
  36. male
  37. toe
  38. rows
  39. cell
  40. sell

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