Homophones #2

For each word, guess (and correctly spell) its homophone.

A homophone is a word that sounds the same but is spelled differently

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First submitted	February 18, 2013
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Word	Homophone
Piece	Peace
Fare	Fair
Seed	Cede
Band	Banned
Faint	Feint
Size	Sighs
Sweet	Suite
Gored	Gourd

Word	Homophone
We	Wee
Hail	Hale
Lax	Lacks
Soar	Sore
Mall	Maul
Son	Sun
Hole	Whole
Naval	Navel

Word	Homophone
Horse	Hoarse
Pray	Prey
Owed	Ode
Barren	Baron
Groan	Grown
Build	Billed
Wade	Weighed
Ceiling	Sealing

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Level 82

May 5, 2013

Anyone else get something different for "horse?"

Level 25

Apr 21, 2021

hahaha hell yeah

Level 59

May 5, 2013

Got them all in 74 seconds.

+17

Level 69

May 5, 2013

Anyone else try whores for horse? Lol

Level 75

Jul 27, 2018

In my American accent the former is pronounced as "horz" and the latter as "horce" which are different.

Level 58

Oct 19, 2013

All with 3.24 left. Very cool quiz! Definitely works to say the word out loud as you go.

Level 30

Apr 1, 2014

I thought old for owed? But I guess there is a slight difference.

Level 42

Apr 25, 2024

There is an L in old. Where is that not pronounced?

Level 71

Mar 5, 2015

I don't think these words are homophones for everyone, even in UK people will pronounce many of these words differently, in south of UK 'mall' is pronounced with a long A as in TALL, but in the north of England e.g. it is mall as in pal. .... I'm sure that many of these words would be pronounced differently in areas of the USA just as they are here in Australia. This must be a difficult quiz for a non-English speaking person.

Level 83

Mar 6, 2024

In my experience, mall is not a word in common use in the UK. As I understand it the word refers to what we would call a shopping centre. There is a street in London called Pall Mall which is pronounced with both words rhyming with pal or shall.

Level 42

Apr 25, 2024

But definitely not "maul", as claimed by the quiz.

Level 66

Jul 3, 2015

Fun.

Level 47

Oct 2, 2015

Gourd and gored aren't homophones. Gourd rhymes with toured and gored rhymes with bored.

Level 75

Oct 2, 2015

To me (from England), all four words you quote are pronounced the same way but even in the UK other regions pronounce words very differently so its hard to please everyone with this kind of quiz.

Level 63

Oct 2, 2015

That was the only one I didn't get, and I pronounce them differently too. But I looked it up: ɡôrd (to rhyme with 'bored') and ɡo͝ord (to rhyme with 'toured') are both valid pronunciations.

Level 25

Apr 21, 2021

big fan of ur work!!!! pls make a new saturday stumper

Level 60

Oct 2, 2015

I'm an American from the east coast and most people I've met say I have a general American accent without any regional affectations, and the only one of those words I pronounce differently is toured. I pronounce everything else like I would pronounce Ford.

Level 75

Oct 7, 2015

Same here with my Upper South accent. I say, "Toored".

Level 18

Oct 2, 2015

I enjoyed this, but it was tough! Ended up getting so desperate that I tried "oui" for "we".

Level 82

Sep 28, 2021

better than me. I tried Wii, like the video game console.

Level 42

Apr 25, 2024

So did I.

Level 83

Oct 2, 2015

Fayre as well as fair?

Level 70

Oct 2, 2015

100%.

Level 71

Oct 4, 2015

Please accept "fayre" for fair as well (a spelling often used in the UK) :)

Level 38

Oct 4, 2015

How about "mole" for "mall" and "hall" for "hole"?

Level 89

Apr 22, 2019

Ta f?

Level 79

Dec 31, 2020

What accent do you speak in?

Level 53

Nov 15, 2015

Too many options... seat, Swede, bend, bent, whores, etc. Bad quiz.

Level 69

Feb 6, 2016

You pronounce seat and Swede the same as each other, and sweet and suite? You pronounce bend and bent the same as each other, and banned and band? You pronounce whores the same as horse and hoarse? I honestly can't think for the life of me what accent would do that, but even if you do, the vast vast majority (not even just Americans, also most other native English speakers) of people don't speak like that.

Level 69

Feb 6, 2016

Can I have seeling for ceiling? Like, "come, seeling night, scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day"? :P

Level 46

Apr 16, 2017

much harder than you think it will be.Good quiz

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Level 84

Aug 29, 2017

If you say them with juuuuust the right accent, "avocado" and "lumberjack" are homophones.

Level 89

Apr 22, 2019

And the both rhyme with hull.

Level 72

Sep 21, 2017

What about hull as in the hull of a ship for hole

Level 73

Jul 28, 2018

What about it? If you pronounce both of these the same, then you're getting at least one of them wrong.

Level 69

Nov 30, 2017

I kept trying gaud for gored - they do sound identical to me but maybe no coz gaud isn’t exactly in everyday use ?

Level 77

Jul 27, 2018

In which corner of the globe do gored and gourd sound the same? Gourd to me rhymes with endured.

Level 35

Nov 30, 2017

And can we have hull for hole, as in the hull of a ship. I must have typed it three times

Level 89

Apr 22, 2019

One is a long O, one is a schwa, uh.

On the subject of ships you might as well say butt and boat are pronounced the same way.

"Nice boat."

"Me or my wife?"

Level 76

Nov 30, 2017

I literally thought it was oui or whee for we, I feel that they should be accepted too.

Level 36

Jan 3, 2018

Fayre is pronounced the same as fair and fare so i think it should be accepted as well

Level 63

Jun 27, 2018

USA: 350 million people.

The rest of the world: 6.650 billion people.

We far outweigh the people of the US, so stop tailor-making your quizzes to cater to their linguistic style only. Put a disclaimer on your quizzes otherwise that states: you WILL NOT GET THIS if you don't speak/sound like an American.

Level 70

Jun 28, 2018

Most of those 6.650 billion people don't speak English at all and so would not pronounce these words in any way. I got most of these and I am British. But if the quiz is based on any particular accent maybe there should be a disclaimer but most of them work in all accents I have heard.

Level 63

Jul 27, 2018

In a few hundred years, no one will speak English, there will be no more USA, and white people will only live in tiny enclaves.

Can't wait for the updated quizzes!

Level 79

Dec 31, 2020

What do you mean by that?

Level 56

Jul 27, 2018

Or...if you're not American, create your own quiz and fill it with whatever you want. Most of the people who create these quizzes are American but it doesn't have to be that way. Stop complaining and change what you don't like.

Level 89

Apr 22, 2019

https://www.jetpunk.com/create-quiz

Level 77

Sep 28, 2021

It'd be impossible to cater to every single accent and dialect of English. Just use the Queen's English.

Level 49

Jul 9, 2018

Saw ends with an 'aw' sound. Nothing like sore or soar which has an 'or' sound

Level 49

Jul 27, 2018

sore and soar also end in an 'aw' sound, for nawmal people.

Level 32

Jun 21, 2021

How could you say ‘saw’ differently? Do you say it like ‘wow’?

Level 72

Jul 27, 2018

Would "lacs" (plural of lac) not also work for "lax?"

Level 60

Oct 15, 2023

Lacs should be accepted.

Level 71

Jul 27, 2018

I was hopelessly stuck on Piece because I read it as "Pierce" and I was trying everything I could think of to get it until I realized what it actually said. /facepalm

Level 56

Jul 27, 2018

Just say em out loud and you'll get them.

Level 59

Jul 27, 2018

Although I got the correct answer, I do not pronounce "horse" and "hoarse" the same way. For me "horse" rhymes with "arse," and "hoarse" rhymes with "source."

Level 73

Jul 28, 2018

Seriously, in what universe does horse rhyme with arse? Horse rhymes with morse, surely?

Level 42

Apr 25, 2024

Irish?

Level 72

Jul 27, 2018

I pronounce barren and baron differently. Perhaps that's just me.

Level 42

Apr 25, 2024

I am wondering whether I do. Still debating with myself.

Level 82

Jul 27, 2018

Whores and saw for horse and soar respectively, surely?

Level 62

Jan 31, 2019

Whores ends in a Z sound. Horse ends in an S sound.

Level 63

Jul 27, 2018

For maul, I roll the vowel sound so it sounds more like (m)awl. People in the Washington, DC talk like that and I picked it up. But then, in DC, wall sounds like wawl, so I guess that's still a homophone.

Level 45

Jul 30, 2018

100% with 3:45 to go.. loved it.

Level 46

Aug 2, 2018

Never mind about all your accents. I use a baren regularly when making woodcuts or linocuts: Merriam-Webster define it as: "a pad of twisted cord covered with paper, cloth, and bamboo leaf with which a printmaker transmits pressure typically by rubbing to paper". It is pronounced the same as barren/baron.

Level 41

Feb 26, 2019

A quiz like this is difficult to be accurate for a world-wide audience. There is no 'right' way of pronouncing these words. But perhaps the quiz should either specify the region from which the accent is derived, or allow other accent specific homophones as correct answers.

Level 48

Mar 29, 2019

You should accept 'sais'.

They are what Raphael uses!

Level 87

Sep 13, 2021

I thought the same thing, so I looked it up. Apparently, the plural of sai is also sai.

Level 82

Aug 1, 2019

Give peas a chance

Level 40

Oct 14, 2020

Build and billed are not homophones

Gored and gourd are not homophones

Level 62

Sep 28, 2021

Yes, they are.

Level 42

Apr 25, 2024

Build and billed may be, but claiming that "gourd" does not rhyme with "endured" shows how limited your outlook is.

Level 77

Sep 28, 2021

OK, I'm curious how you could possibly pronounce billed and build differently. Do you pronounce it "bill-ed", like "learn-ed"?

Level 74

Dec 22, 2020

I pronounce ceiling like see-ling and sealing like seal-ing

Level 85

Sep 29, 2021

But seal and seel are pronounced the same?

Level 60

Oct 15, 2023

I think they mean they say them with different syllable lengths.

Level 74

Oct 15, 2023

I stand by this comment 3 years later. I say these words differently. I'm surprised no one else has mentioned this.

Level 79

Dec 31, 2020

Completed with 3:48 remaining! 😁

Level 36

Apr 9, 2021

Got stuck on barren/baron because I kept spelling it with two Rs 😭good quiz!!

Level 46

Sep 13, 2021

Challenging one for sure, missed Size - Sighs & Seed - Cede.

Level 66

Sep 28, 2021

Oh gawd, you missed one

Level 76

Sep 28, 2021

Consider accepting sais (plural of sai)? Channeling my inner ninja turtle.

Level 67

Sep 28, 2021

Can Mole be accepted for Mall and be W-h-o-r-e-s be accepted for Horse?

Level 28

Sep 28, 2021

I tried mole as well and wondered why it didn't work

Level 66

Sep 28, 2021

Kinda tricky, as my English pronunciation is quite phonetic. Had to think how Americans pronounces the words.

Level 85

Sep 29, 2021

Personally, I disagree that "groan" and "grown" are homophones, and think that "fear" is a homophone of "fare". But different countries have different dialects I guess.

Level 56

Jun 9, 2022

kiwi?

Level 67

Nov 22, 2021

For We I immediately thought Oui

Level 56

Jun 9, 2022

same

Level 36

Mar 15, 2022

me in 2018: apparently couldnt get sweet/suite

me in 2022: remembered suite no trouble but took forever to remember gourds existed, kept trying gaud despite knowing it was incorrect for over a minute

Level 56

Jun 9, 2022

im not american, don't they pronounce hall and haul like hole? also mole and mall?

Level 77

Jul 2, 2023

Not in most US dialects, no. "Hall," "haul," and "mall" have an "ah" sound, while, "hole" and "mole" have an "oh" sound.

Level 56

Aug 31, 2022

couldnt hull work for hole?

Level 67

Apr 21, 2023

Not pronounced the same way

Level 41

Jan 15, 2023

can't believe I forgot naval and navel were spelled differently

Level 67

Apr 21, 2023

I seem to always miss Sealing for some reason

Level 79

May 24, 2023

Should accept "moll" for "mall" (as in "___ Flanders" or "gangster's ____").

Level 69

Jan 2, 2024

Do Americans really pronounce "gored" and "gourd" the same?

Level 43

Feb 10, 2024

Heil for homophone for hail?

Level 23

Feb 26, 2024

What happened to my English? Four fails. My household was build for that ode inn ceiling the sealing. What a sad song. Had bean a bit gored bout singing in the reign den...

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