homophones

A Homophone is a word that sounds exactly like another word but has a different spelling and meaning: cent, sent.

Homophones occur because many letters and letter combinations make more than one sound.

1.    cent            money

2.    sent             mailed away

3.    scent           odor

4.    threw          used your hand to throw

5.    through       in one side and out the other

6.    weather       rain, snow sleet, hail, etc.

7.    whether       if

8.    their            belonging to them

9.    there           at or in that place

10.  they’re       contraction for they are

11.  chili            food

12.  chilly          cold feeling

13.  tide            the ocean

14.  tied            used a rope

15.  pale            light color

16.  pail            bucket

17.  aloud          out loud, with a voice

18.  allowed       permitted

19.  course        route

20.  coarse        large grains, rough

  Challenge Words

21.  counsel       give advice

22.  council       group of people

23.  bizarre        strange

24.  bazaar        place to shop

25.  patients       ill people

26.  patience      stay calm