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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 submittedFebruary 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
Valta
+27
Level 32
Mar 16, 2013
Could 'Saw' also be a homophone of 'Sore' and 'Soar'?
LegendBlackKyurem
+1
Level 25
May 5, 2013
I tried that too
nozmoking
+33
Level 45
Apr 19, 2018
only if you're from Brooklyn
Gurminator
+9
Level 67
Sep 28, 2021
Or any English-speaking country outside America.
Dimby
+5
Level 77
Sep 28, 2021
Saw does not rhyme with Sore in the Queen's English.
AlexThirkell
+5
Level 75
Sep 28, 2021
? I can't imagine how saw/sore/soar could possibly be pronounced differently in the Queen's English.

In several regional accents they're different, sure (= 'Shaw' = 'shore'), and in Scotland they'd even have a different number of syllables, but in RP saw/sore/soar are identical.

PitifulExcuse
+1
Level 55
Feb 9, 2024
Yeah but RP is the pronunciation system of a small minority of English speakers mostly in the SE of England.
TheGreatArturo
+1
Level 76
Feb 12, 2024
^That doesn't make it wrong.
quizstormer
+1
Level 16
Dec 3, 2021
i tried that too!
hesasmartone
+26
Level 44
May 5, 2013
As an American, this is really hilarious.
icecreamcake724
+6
Level 38
May 5, 2013
Lmao. Canadian here. I also found this funny. Brits pronounce them all as "sar," I guess (everything I know about British accents, I learned from Harry Potter and Top Gear lol).
Malbaby
+13
Level 71
Oct 2, 2015
Surprisingly for many, there is no such thing as a British accent. As you travel through the UK the accents change often every few miles and anyone who knows UK accents can tell within a few miles just whereabouts they are. I don't include 'actors' accents, these are usually put on and are often not the original accents of the actors. When you talk about UK accents, it is not just English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish accents, or even e.g. Isle of Man, Channel Island , Shetland Islands, Orkney Islands accents for these accents all have regional accents, but town to town accents, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Bristol, Edinburgh etc etc...... every town throughout the UK (thousands) have a unique accent. For me I love travelling in the UK just to listen to the wonderful accents to be found.
iRDM
+1
Level 76
Sep 22, 2023
bologna
McLerristarr
+11
Level 62
Jan 31, 2019
They're not pronounced "sar". Americans (and presumably it's the same for many Canadians) have lots of sounds that are the same to them but distinct in many other accents. To a Brit and an Australian, "soar", "sore" and "saw" all rhyme with "oar", which doesn't sound the same as "are".
Chick0nPlayz
+3
Level 32
Jun 21, 2021
@hesasmartone How could saw not rhyme with soar or sore?
RobNobody
+1
Level 76
Jul 2, 2023
Because in most US dialects, "soar" and "sore" have a distinctly pronounced "r" sound at the end that "saw" lacks. Also, the vowel sound in "soar" and "sore" is more of an "oo," while "saw" is more of an "ah."
ctleng76
+5
Level 65
Jun 17, 2013
Saw sounds nothing like sore or soar!
098
+12
Level 31
Oct 2, 2013
Yes it does... Saw, sore and soar all have the same -or sound at the end....
ander217
+6
Level 75
Feb 2, 2015
It's like when I hear Gordon Ramsay pronounce "raw". It sounds as though he's saying roar, which is hilarious to me. "It's roar! The chicken is roar!"
JeremyX
+4
Level 64
Oct 2, 2015
@reneegenevieve You'll notice that oxforddictionary.com gives you exactly the same pronunciation for 'sore' and 'soar' as it gives for 'saw'.
roleybob
+6
Level 75
Oct 2, 2015
They are absolutely homophones

I can't even think of a way to pronounce either differently

RobNobody
+1
Level 76
Jul 2, 2023
Think of "sore" and "soar" ending with an "oor" sound, distinctly pronouncing the "r," and then think of "saw" ending with "ah," with no "r" sound at all.
ChaosQuizzer
+2
Level 22
Oct 1, 2016
@ander217

The chicken's so roar I can hear it roar!

RealDad12
+4
Level 67
Mar 19, 2018
It sounds EXACTLY the same as sore and soar. >:-(
kalbahamut
+9
Level 82
Jul 27, 2018
^ if you have a speech impediment
MrDinosaur
+1
Level 35
Mar 20, 2024
an actual funny comment from you
PatoPotato
+2
Level 52
Jul 28, 2018
deniseread, 'saw' and 'soar' do sound the same (in Australia though)
Newroadgirl
+2
Level 68
Nov 6, 2020
it most certainly does in London!

Centuries ago I had a Scots boyfriend who always laughed when I used the words poor, pour and paw. Said they all sounded the same and spent hours teaching me to say them 'properly'.

JackintheBox
+5
Level 79
Dec 31, 2020
Saw /sɔː/ is a homophone of sore /sɔː/ and soar (/sɔː/) in Received Pronunciaton.
sergeantmalice
+3
Level 56
Jun 9, 2022
@kalbahamut so from what i gather...

your accent = the universal consensus

anything else = speech impediment

Slipsteen
+1
Level 77
Apr 17, 2015
In the US, they only talk that way on the East Coast, and only NYC and Boston, at that.
MasterKenobi
+1
Level 60
Oct 2, 2015
Haha no my former stepdad from St Louis says it that way too.
Tramp
+2
Level 76
Feb 4, 2017
Yeah, took me a second to realise why it wasn't being accepted.

For the Yanks - we say "Sore" and Soar the same way you say "Saw". We tend not to pronounce the letter "R" if it's at the end of a word. e.g. for "Redder", Americans will say "Red-urr", really stressing the "er" at the end, whereas we say "red-duh".

They're definitely homophones in Britain though, as well as in most other non N. American English speaking countries.

chyde
+2
Level 35
Nov 30, 2017
And could we have hull for hole, as in the hull of a ship. I must have typed it three times.
McLerristarr
+5
Level 62
Jan 31, 2019
Those aren't even remotely similar in my accent. Americans merge so many sounds together.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Apr 22, 2019
Nowhere in the U.S. that I know of would mistake the 2.

Whole and hole sound totally different whenever I hear anyone say them. Close, but no seegar.

MrJay2018
+2
Level 28
Mar 2, 2018
Get out!! No!
chattypenguin
+4
Level 34
Jul 27, 2018
Saw, sore, and soar are homophones in all non-rhotic accents of English (e.g. Received Pronunciation, Australian English, etc) so I agree it should be accepted as an alternate answer.
AlexM
+1
Level 81
Jul 27, 2018
I'm British, basically have RP, and I'd say saw, sore and soar are homophones. You virtually don't pronounce the "r" in the two words that have it....
Pharley
+2
Level 73
Jul 28, 2018
Even although you should?
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Apr 22, 2019
Then you don't have true RP, you have office worker RP.
g4ndalf
+1
Level 69
Apr 8, 2024
As someone whose first language isn't english, this is extremely confusing.
kalbahamut
+11
Level 82
May 5, 2013
Anyone else get something different for "horse?"
caitfd
+1
Level 25
Apr 21, 2021
hahaha hell yeah
bebn123
+1
Level 59
May 5, 2013
Got them all in 74 seconds.
noodles
+17
Level 69
May 5, 2013
Anyone else try whores for horse? Lol
ander217
+9
Level 75
Jul 27, 2018
In my American accent the former is pronounced as "horz" and the latter as "horce" which are different.
Trackles13
+1
Level 58
Oct 19, 2013
All with 3.24 left. Very cool quiz! Definitely works to say the word out loud as you go.
yappypants
+1
Level 30
Apr 1, 2014
I thought old for owed? But I guess there is a slight difference.
Malbaby
+2
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.
AbiA
+1
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.
mightythor
+1
Level 66
Jul 3, 2015
Fun.
Instrumental
+4
Level 47
Oct 2, 2015
Gourd and gored aren't homophones. Gourd rhymes with toured and gored rhymes with bored.
nettybet
+6
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.
kiwirage
+2
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.
caitfd
+1
Level 25
Apr 21, 2021
big fan of ur work!!!! pls make a new saturday stumper
MasterKenobi
+2
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.
ander217
+2
Level 75
Oct 7, 2015
Same here with my Upper South accent. I say, "Toored".
musicyoutubeandpizza
+8
Level 18
Oct 2, 2015
I enjoyed this, but it was tough! Ended up getting so desperate that I tried "oui" for "we".
GrammarBeane1
+3
Level 82
Sep 28, 2021
better than me. I tried Wii, like the video game console.
brandybuck96
+1
Level 83
Oct 2, 2015
Fayre as well as fair?
celebeth
+1
Level 70
Oct 2, 2015
100%.
Bubblecat
+1
Level 71
Oct 4, 2015
Please accept "fayre" for fair as well (a spelling often used in the UK) :)
redrose
+2
Level 38
Oct 4, 2015
How about "mole" for "mall" and "hall" for "hole"?
IsleAuHaulte
+6
Level 89
Apr 22, 2019
Ta f?
JackintheBox
+2
Level 79
Dec 31, 2020
What accent do you speak in?
Cezar
+2
Level 53
Nov 15, 2015
Too many options... seat, Swede, bend, bent, whores, etc. Bad quiz.
AllenY
+2
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.
AllenY
+1
Level 69
Feb 6, 2016
Can I have seeling for ceiling? Like, "come, seeling night, scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day"? :P
caracas79
+1
Level 46
Apr 16, 2017
much harder than you think it will be.Good quiz
DonTheLamplighter
+9
Level 84
Aug 29, 2017
If you say them with juuuuust the right accent, "avocado" and "lumberjack" are homophones.
IsleAuHaulte
+6
Level 89
Apr 22, 2019
And the both rhyme with hull.
jlhawley
+3
Level 72
Sep 21, 2017
What about hull as in the hull of a ship for hole
Pharley
+4
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.
Anzi
+2
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 ?
CardinalSin
+4
Level 77
Jul 27, 2018
In which corner of the globe do gored and gourd sound the same? Gourd to me rhymes with endured.
chyde
+2
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
IsleAuHaulte
+1
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?"

Jared0309
+2
Level 76
Nov 30, 2017
I literally thought it was oui or whee for we, I feel that they should be accepted too.
Quizzer102
+2
Level 36
Jan 3, 2018
Fayre is pronounced the same as fair and fare so i think it should be accepted as well
undeadwarrior
+1
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.

TWM03
+8
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.
Cooldrive
+2
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!

JackintheBox
+3
Level 79
Dec 31, 2020
What do you mean by that?
tuzdayschild
+6
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.
Dimby
+1
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.
Kaz60
+2
Level 49
Jul 9, 2018
Saw ends with an 'aw' sound. Nothing like sore or soar which has an 'or' sound
SenileS
+4
Level 49
Jul 27, 2018
sore and soar also end in an 'aw' sound, for nawmal people.
Chick0nPlayz
+3
Level 32
Jun 21, 2021
How could you say ‘saw’ differently? Do you say it like ‘wow’?
peira002
+3
Level 72
Jul 27, 2018
Would "lacs" (plural of lac) not also work for "lax?"
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 60
Oct 15, 2023
Lacs should be accepted.
gatorsong
+1
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
BobKazamakis
+1
Level 56
Jul 27, 2018
Just say em out loud and you'll get them.
Susie222
+1
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."
Pharley
+7
Level 73
Jul 28, 2018
Seriously, in what universe does horse rhyme with arse? Horse rhymes with morse, surely?
madmonte
+2
Level 72
Jul 27, 2018
I pronounce barren and baron differently. Perhaps that's just me.
mrnafe
+1
Level 82
Jul 27, 2018
Whores and saw for horse and soar respectively, surely?
McLerristarr
+4
Level 62
Jan 31, 2019
Whores ends in a Z sound. Horse ends in an S sound.
Cooldrive
+1
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.
RubberTrumpet
+1
Level 45
Jul 30, 2018
100% with 3:45 to go.. loved it.
dtlh25
+1
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.
Karvey
+3
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.
GeoDude
+3
Level 48
Mar 29, 2019
You should accept 'sais'.

They are what Raphael uses!

Vog
+3
Level 87
Sep 13, 2021
I thought the same thing, so I looked it up. Apparently, the plural of sai is also sai.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Aug 1, 2019
Give peas a chance
higilo
+1
Level 40
Oct 14, 2020
Build and billed are not homophones

Gored and gourd are not homophones

DrWhoFanJ
+5
Level 62
Sep 28, 2021
Yes, they are.

Yes, they are.

Dimby
+1
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"?
Froststar101
+2
Level 74
Dec 22, 2020
I pronounce ceiling like see-ling and sealing like seal-ing
GreenFriday
+1
Level 85
Sep 29, 2021
But seal and seel are pronounced the same?
Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 60
Oct 15, 2023
I think they mean they say them with different syllable lengths.
Froststar101
+1
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.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 79
Dec 31, 2020
Completed with 3:48 remaining! 😁
rlevingston
+1
Level 36
Apr 9, 2021
Got stuck on barren/baron because I kept spelling it with two Rs 😭good quiz!!
zBlur
+1
Level 46
Sep 13, 2021
Challenging one for sure, missed Size - Sighs & Seed - Cede.
Zupity
+1
Level 66
Sep 28, 2021
Oh gawd, you missed one
Jeffro
+1
Level 76
Sep 28, 2021
Consider accepting sais (plural of sai)? Channeling my inner ninja turtle.
QuizApe
+1
Level 67
Sep 28, 2021
Can Mole be accepted for Mall and be W-h-o-r-e-s be accepted for Horse?
ChallengeMaster
+1
Level 28
Sep 28, 2021
I tried mole as well and wondered why it didn't work
TamuAudwodia
+2
Level 66
Sep 28, 2021
Kinda tricky, as my English pronunciation is quite phonetic. Had to think how Americans pronounces the words.
GreenFriday
+2
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.
sergeantmalice
+1
Level 56
Jun 9, 2022
kiwi?
FatSpartanJediLlama
+2
Level 67
Nov 22, 2021
For We I immediately thought Oui
sergeantmalice
+1
Level 56
Jun 9, 2022
same
clarasdoctahs
+1
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

sergeantmalice
+1
Level 56
Jun 9, 2022
im not american, don't they pronounce hall and haul like hole? also mole and mall?
RobNobody
+1
Level 76
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.
Willuna
+1
Level 56
Aug 31, 2022
couldnt hull work for hole?
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Apr 21, 2023
Not pronounced the same way
summer19
+2
Level 41
Jan 15, 2023
can't believe I forgot naval and navel were spelled differently
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Apr 21, 2023
I seem to always miss Sealing for some reason
Ymmot
+1
Level 79
May 24, 2023
Should accept "moll" for "mall" (as in "___ Flanders" or "gangster's ____").
JesseFromThe6
+2
Level 69
Jan 2, 2024
Do Americans really pronounce "gored" and "gourd" the same?
Claptime9558
+1
Level 43
Feb 10, 2024
Heil for homophone for hail?
CharlieBlue
+1
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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