Confusing Words
Homonyms, Contranyms, Heteronyms, Compounds, Solecisms,
and Other Confusing Words
A
abduction / adduction
ability / capability
abjure / adjure
accede / axseed
accept / except
actuate / acuate / activate
activate / actuate / acuate
acuate / activate / actuate
adapt / adopt
addition / edition
adduce / educe / deduce
adieu / ado
adjure / abjure
ado / adieu
adopt / adapt
adopted / adoptive
adoptive / adopted
adoration / adulation
adulation / adoration
adverse / averse
aerial / ariel
aerie / airy
affect / effect
afferent / efferent
aggravate / annoy
aid / aide
aide / aid
ail / ale
ain't
air / ere
air (gas / tune / character) / heir
airy / aerie
aisle / isle
ait / ate
albumen / albumin
albumin / albumen
ale / ail
alibi (proof / excuse)
all ready / already
all together / altogether
all ways / always
all right / alright
all most / almost
all / awl
allot / a lot / alot
allowed / aloud
allude / elude
allude / refer
allusion / illusion
allusive / elusive
almost / all most
alms / arms
a lot / alot / allot
alot / allot / a lot
aloud / allowed
already / all ready
alright / all right
altar / alter
alter / altar
altogether / all together
always / all ways
ambition / aspiration
amend / emend
amid / amidst
amidst / amid
amok / amuck
among / between
amuck / amok
amuse / bemuse
an other / another
annoy / aggravate
another / an other
ante / anti
antetype / antitype
anti / ante
anticline / decline / incline / syncline
antitype / antetype
anxious / eager
any where / anywhere / anywheres
any way / anyway / anyways
any one / anyone
any more / anymore
any time / anytime
any body / anybody
anybody / any body
anymore / any more
anyone / any one
anytime / any time
anyway / anyways / any way
anyways / any way / anyway
anywhere / anywheres / any where
anywheres / any where / anywhere
a part / apart
apart / a part
appertaining / appurtenance
appetent / appetite
appetite / appetent
apposite / opposite
apposition / juxtaposition
appraise / apprise
apprise / appraise
appurtenance / appertaining
appurtenant / pertinent / germane
arbitrage / arbitrate
arbitrament / arbitrement
arbitrate / arbitrage
arbitration / mediation
arbitrement / arbitrament
arc / arch
arc / ark
arch / arc
archetype / holotype / prototype
are (plural 'be' / 0.01 hectare)
arian / aryan
ariel / aerial
ark / arc
arms / alms
arouse / roust / rout / rouse
aryan / arian
ascent / assent
aspiration / ambition
assent / ascent
astray / estray
ate / ait
aught (anything / nothing)
aural / oral
aureate / orate
averse / adverse
away / aweigh
aweigh / away
awful / offal
a while / awhile
awhile / a while
awl / all
ax / axe
axe / ax
axseed / accede
aye / eye / I
B
bad / bade
bade / bad
bade / bayed
bail / bale
bait / bate
bale / bail
balk / buck
ball / bawl
ballad / ballade
ballade / ballad
ballocks / bollix
balm / bomb
band / banned
banned / band
bare / bear (carry / animal)
bark / barque
baron / barren
barque / bark
barren / baron
base / bass (tone / instrument / fish)
bass (tone / instrument / fish) / base
bassinet / Bathinette
bate / bait
Bathinette / bassinet
battled / embattled
baud / bawd
bawd / baud
bawl / ball
bayed / bade
bazaar / bizarre
be / bee
beach / beech
beak / bill
bean / been
bear (carry / animal) / bare
beat / beet
beau / bow (knot / weapon / stoop / prow) / bough
beaut / butte
bee / be
beech / beach
been / bean
beer / bier
beet / beat
begrudging / grudging
begrudgingly / grudgingly
bemuse / amuse
bend / bent
benefaction / beneficence
beneficence / benefaction
bent / bend
berry / bury
berth / birth
besmirch / smirch
betide / betise / tide
betise /tide / betide
between / among
biannual / biennial
biennial / biannual
bier / beer
bight / byte / bite
bill / beak
birth / berth
bit / bitt
bite / bight / byte
bitt / bit
bizarre / bazaar
blessed / blest
blest / blessed
blew / blue
blind / purblind / sand-blind
blind / visor
bloc / block
block / bloc
blond / blonde
blonde / blond
blue / blew
boar / bore (perforate / drill / dull)
board / bored
boil / roil / moil
bolder / boulder
bole / bowl
bollix / ballocks
bolt (secure / depart)
bomb / balm
bore (perforate / drill / dull) / boar
bored / board
born / borne / bourn
borne / bourn / born
boson / bosun (boatswain)
bosun (boatswain) / boson
bother / pother
bough / beau / bow (knot / weapon / stoop / prow)
boulder / bolder
bourn / born / borne
bow (knot / weapon / stoop / prow) / bough / beau
bowl / bole
boy / buoy
Brahman / Brahmin
Brahmin / Brahman
brake / break
breach / breech
bread / bred
break / brake
breath / breathe
breathe / breath
bred / bread
breech / breach
briar / brier
bridal / bridle
bridle / bridal
brier / briar
brisk / brusque
broach / brooch
brooch / broach
brusk / brusque
brusque / brisk
brusque / brusk
buck / balk
buckle (fasten / part)
buddy / butty
buoy / boy
bury / berry
but / butt
butt / but
butte / beaut
butty / buddy
buy / by (combine / produce) / bye
buyer / byre
by (combine / produce) / bye / buy
bye / buy / by (combine / produce)
byre / buyer
byte / bite / bight
by the bye
C
cache / cash
caddie / caddy
caddy / caddie
cadenza / credenza
calendar / calender
calender / calendar
calk / caulk / cock
callose / callus / callous
callous / callus / callose
callus / callose / callous
calvary / cavalry
camaraderie / comradery
cannon / canon
canon / cannon
canter / cantor
cantor / canter
canvas / canvass
canvass / canvas
capability / ability
capital / capitol
capitol / capital
carat / carrot / caret
caret / carat / carrot
carrot / caret / carat
cash / cache
cast / caste
caste / cast
caulk / cock / calk
cavalry / calvary
cay / quay / key
cede / seed
ceiling / sealing
cell / sell
cellar / seller
censer / censor / sensor
censor / sensor / censer
cent / scent / sent
centrifugal / centripetal
centripetal / centrifugal
cereal / serial
cereal / serial
chafe / chaff
chaff / chafe
chary / cherry
chase (pursue / ornament)
chased / chaste
chaste / chased
cheap / cheep
check / cheque
cheep / cheap
cheque / check
cherry / chary
chews / choose
chine / spine
choir / quire
choose / chews
choral / coral
chorale / corral
chord / cord
chuffed (pleased / annoyed)
chute / shoot
cite / sight / site
clamp / cramp
clause / claws
claws / clause
cleave (adhere / divide)
clew / clue
climacatic / climacteric / climactic
climacteric / climactic / climacatic
climactic / climacatic / climacteric
climb / clime
clime / climb
clinometer / inclinometer
clip (fasten / detach)
closure / cloture
cloture / closure
clue / clew
coal / cole / kohl
coaming / combing
coarse / course
coat / cote
cock / calk / caulk
cocks / cox
coin / quoin
cole / kohl / coal
coliseum / colosseum
collate / collocate
collation (count / food)
collide / colloid
collocate / collate
colloid / collide
colonel / kernel
colosseum / coliseum
coma / comma
combing / coaming
come / cum
comma / coma
complected
complement / compliment
compliment / complement
comportment / deportment
compose / comprise
comprise / compose
comradery / camaraderie
concealment / cover
concent / consent
conception / inception
conclave / enclave / exclave
confess / profess
conflicted
conjecture / surmise / hypothesize / suppose / speculate
connive / contrive
connote / denote
consent / concent
constrain / restrain
consul / counsel
consult (seek / bestow)
contact / impact
contemptible / contemptuous
contemptuous / contemptible
continual / continuous
continuous / continual
contrive / connive
coo / coup
coral / choral
cord / chord
core / corps
cornet / coronet
coronet / cornet
corps / core
corral / chorale
corrasion / corrosion
corrosion / corrasion
cote / coat
council / counsel
counsel / consul
counsel / council
countertype (same / opposite)
coup / coo
course / coarse
cover / concealment
cox / cocks
cramp / clamp
creak / creek
credenza / cadenza
credible / creditable
creditable / credible
creek / creak
crevasse / crevice
crevice / crevasse
crewel / cruel
critical / crucial
crucial / critical
crude / rude
cruel / crewel
cue / queue
cum / come
curette / serette
currant / current
current / currant
custom (usual / unusual)
cygnet / signet
cymbal / symbol
D
dab / daub
dais / pulpit / lectern / podium
dale / dell / vale
dam / damn
damn / dam
damp / dampen
dampen / damp
daub / dab
days / daze
daze / days
dear / deer
deathless / deftless / depthless
debark / disembark
debutant / debutante
debutante / debutant
decimate / devastate
decline / incline / syncline / anticline
deduce / adduce / educe
deduction / eduction
deer / dear
deftless / depthless / deathless
defuse / diffuse
degree / diploma
dell / vale / dale
delusion / dilution
demonic / demotic
demotic / demonic
demur / demure
demure / demur
denotate
denote / connote
dent / dint
dental / dentil
dentil / dental
deportment / comportment
deprecate / depreciate
deprecatory depreciatory
depreciate / deprecate
depreciatory / deprecatory
depthless / deathless / deftless
descendant / descendent
descendent / descendant
descent / dissent
desert (land / leave / reward) / dessert
despoil / spoil
dessert / desert (land / leave / reward)
determinately / determinedly
determinedly / determinately
detract / distract
devastate / decimate
devotedly / devoutly
devoutly / devotedly
dew / due
dial / diel
dialectal / dialectical / dialectic
dialectic / dialectal / dialectical
dialectical / dialectic / dialectal
diaper / diapir
diapir / diaper
die / dye
diel / dial
diffuse / defuse
diffuse / suffuse / perfuse
dike (wall / ditch) / dyke
dilution / delusion
dint / dent
diploma / degree
disassociate / dissociate
disburse / dispense / disperse
discomfit / discomfort
discomfort / discomfit
discreet / discrete
discrete / discreet
discursive (progressive / wandering)
disembark / debark
dispense / disperse / disburse
disperse / diverse
disperse / disburse / dispense
dissent / descent
dissociate / disassociate
distal / proximal
distract / detract
divers / diverse
diverse / divers
diverse / disperse
djin / jinn / gin (distillate / machine / trap / game)
doctrinaire / doctrinal
doctrinal / doctrinaire
doe / dough
dollop (mass / modicum)
done / dun (demand / colour / mayfly)
dough / doe
draft / draught
draught / draft
dribble / drivel
drivel / dribble
dropped / dropt
dropt / dropped
dual / duel
due / dew
duel / dual
dun (demand / colour / mayfly) / done
dust (sprinkle / clean)
dye / die
dyke / dike (wall / ditch)
E
eager / anxious
earn / erne / urn
edition / addition
education / eduction
educe / adduce / deduce
eduction / deduction
eduction / education
effect / affect
effective / effectual
effectual / effective
efferent / afferent
elision / ellipsis
ellipsis / elision
elude / allude
elusion / allusion
emanate / immanent / eminent / imminent
embattled / battled
emend / amend
emerge / immerge
emigrant / émigré
emigrant / immigrant
emigrate / migrate / immigrate
émigré / emigrant
eminent / immanent / emanate / imminent
empanel / impanel
empathy / sympathy
emplane / enplane
empress / impress
emulate / imitate / simulate
enclave / exclave / conclave
encumber / incumbent
engrain / ingrain
enjoin (prescribe / prohibit)
enormity / enormousness
enormousness / enormity
enplane / emplane
ensure / insure
entitle / title
entrepreneur / intrapreneur
entwine / enwind
enunciate / pronouncement / pronunciate
envelop / envelope
envelope / envelop
enwind / entwine
enwind / inwind
epic / epoch
epigram / epigraph / epitaph
epigraph / epitaph / epigram
epitaph / epigram / epigraph
epoch / epic
ere / air
erne / urn / earn
eruct / erupt
erupt / eruct
erupt / irrupt
especial / special
espy / spy
estray / astray
eutopia / utopia
every one / everyone
every body / everybody
every day / everyday
everybody / every body
everyday / every day
everyone / every one
evidenced / evinced
evinced / evidenced
ewe / yew / you
except / accept
exclave / conclave / enclave
exercise / exorcise
exorcise / exercise
eye / I / aye
F
faction / fraction
factious / factitious / fractious
factitious / factious / fractious
fain / feign
faint / feint
fair / fare
fare / fair
farther / further
fast (quick / unmoving)
fatal / fateful
fateful / fatal
faun / fawn
fawn / faun
faze / phase
fearsome (afraid / frightening)
feat / fete / feet
feet / feat / fete
feign / fain
feint / faint
ferment / foment
fervent / fervid
fervid / fervent
fete / feet / feat
feudal / futile
fewer / less
fiancé / fiancée
fiancée / fiancé
file / phial
find / fined
fined / find
fir / fur
fissile / fissionable / friable
fissionable / friable / fissile
flack / flak
flair / flare
flak / flack
flammable / inflammable
flare / flair
flaunt / flout
flea / flee
flee / flea
flew / flu / flue
flier / flyer
flocks / phlox
floe / flow
flog (censure / promote)
flounder / founder
flour / flower
flout / flaunt
flow / floe
flower / flour
flu / flue / flew
flue / flew / flu
flume / plume
flyer / flier
foment / ferment
font / fount
for / fore / four
forbear / forebear
forceable / forcible / forceful
forceful / forceable / forcible
forcible / forceable / forceful
fore / four / for
forebear / forbear
forego / forgo
foregone / forgone
foreword / forward / froward
forgo / forego
forgone / foregone
forte (skill / music)
fortuitous / fortunate / serendipitous
fortunate / serendipitous / fortuitous
forward / foreword / froward
foul / fowl
founder / flounder
fount / font
four / for / fore
fowl / foul
fraction / faction
fractious / factious / factitious
freeze / frieze
friable / fissile / fissionable
friar / fryer
frieze / freeze
froward / forward / foreword
fryer / friar
full / fulsome
fulsome / full
fur / fir
further / farther
fuse / fuze
futile / feudal
fuze / fuse
G
gage / gauge
gaiety / gayety
gait / gate
gamble / gambol
gambol / gamble
gantlet / gauntlet
gap / gat
garner / glean
garnish (adorn / attach)
gat / gap
gate / gait
gauge / gage
gauntlet / gantlet
gayety / gaiety
geld / gelt
gelt / geld
genes / jeans
germane / appurtenant / pertinent
gibe / jibe (gybe) / jive
gild / guild
gilt / guilt
gin (distillate / machine / trap / game) / djin / jinn
glean / garner
goad / goat
goat / goad
good / well
gored / gourd
gorilla / guerrilla
gourd / gored
grade (angle / level)
gradated / graduated
graduated / gradated
grate / great
great / grate
grill / grille
grille / grill
grisly / gristly / grizzly
gristly / grizzly / grisly
grizzly / grisly / gristly
grogram / grosgrain
groin / groyne
grosgrain / grogram
groyne / groin
grudging / begrudging
grudgingly / begrudgingly
guarantee / guaranty
guaranty / guarantee
guerrilla / gorilla
guessed / guest
guest / guessed
guideline / guy-line (guy)
guild / gild
guilt / gilt
gulley / gully
gully / gulley
guy-line (guy) / guideline
H
habitable / uninhabitable / inhabitable
hacek / hassock
hail / hale
hair / hare
hairier / harrier
hairy / harry
hale / hail
hall / haul
hallo (hollo) / hallow / hollow
hallow / hollow / hallo (hollo)
hammock / hommock / hummock
hangar / hanger
hanged
hanger / hangar
hardily / heartily
hardy / hearty
hare / hair
harken / hearken
harrier / hairier
harry / hairy
hart / heart
hassock / hacek
haul / hall
heal / heel / he'll
hear / here
heard / herd
hearken / harken
heart / hart
heartily / hardily
hearty / hardy
heel / he'll / heal
heighth
heir / air (gas / tune / character)
he'll / heal / heel
herd / heard
here / hear
hern (mine / thine)
heroin / heroine
heroine / heroin
heterogeneous / heterogenous
heterogenous / heterogeneous
hew / hue (tint / outcry)
hierarchal / hierarchical
hierarchical / hierarchal
higher / hire
him / hymn
hinky / kinky
hire / higher
hisn (his'n)
hoard / horde
hoarse / horse
hodgepodge / hotchpotch
hole / whole
holey / holy / wholly
hollow / hallo (hollo) / hallow
holotype / prototype / archetype
holy / wholly / holey
hommock / hummock / hammock
hooch / hootch
hootch / hooch
horde / hoard
horse / hoarse
hostel / hostile
hostile / hostel
hotchpotch / hodgepodge
hue (tint / outcry) / hew
hummock / hammock / hommock
hymn / him
hymnal / hymnary
hymnary / hymnal
hypothesize / suppose / speculate / conjecture / surmise
I
I / aye / eye
ideate / iterate
idle / idyll / idol
idol / idle / idyll
idyll / idol / idle
ileum / ilium
ilium / ileum
I'll / aisle / isle
illusion / allusion
imbrue / imbue / instill
imbue / instill / imbrue
imitate / emulate / simulate
immanent / emanate / imminent / eminent
immerge / emerge
immerse / submerse
immigrant / emigrant
immigrate / migrate / emigrate
imminent / eminent / immanent / emanate
impact / contact
impanel / empanel
impenetrable / impermeable / impervious
impermeable / impervious / impenetrable
impervious / impenetrable / impermeable
imply / infer
impress / empress
in / inn
inanition / inanity
inanity / inanition
incense (enrage / perfume)
inception / conception
incipit / insipid
incite / insight
incline / syncline / anticline / decline
inclinometer / clinometer
inconsistency / inconstancy
inconsistent / inconstant
inconstancy / inconsistency
inconstant / inconsistent
incredible / incredulous
incredulous / incredible
incumbent / encumber
incursion / invasion
indict / indite
in different / indifferent
indifferent / in different
in direct / indirect
indirect / in direct
indite / indict
indorse
inequity / iniquity
infect / infest
infer / imply
infest / infect
inflammable / flammable
ingenious / ingenuous
ingenuous / ingenious
ingrain / engrain
inhabitable / habitable / uninhabitable
iniquity / inequity
inject / interject
inn / in
insensate / insensible
insensible / insensate
insight / incite
insipid / incipit
insoluble / insolvable
insolvable / insoluble
inspire / transpire
instill / imbrue / imbue
insure / ensure
interject / inject
intermittent / intromittent
intromittent / intermittent
intern (apprentice / confine)
in to / into
into / in to
intrapreneur / entrepreneur
inwind / enwind
irregardless
irrupt / erupt
isle / I'll / aisle
iterate / ideate
it's / its
its / it's
invasion / incursion
J
jam / jamb
jamb / jam
jeans / genes
jewel / joule
jibe (gybe) / jive / gibe
jinks / jinx
jinn / gin (distillate / machine / trap / game) / djin
jinx / jinks
jive / gibe / jibe (gybe)
joule / jewel
juxtaposition / apposition
K
Karakoram / Karakorum
Karakorum / Karakoram
kempt / kept
kept / kempt
kernel / colonel
key / quay / cay
kinky / hinky
knap / nap
knead / need
knew / new
knight / night
knit / nit
knob / nob
knot / naught / not
knotty / naughty
know / no
knows / nose
kohl / coal / cole
L
laboratory / lavatory
labyrinthian / labyrinthine
labyrinthine / labyrinthian
lam / lamb
lamb / lam
lavatory / laboratory
lay / lei
laying / lying
lays / laze
laze / lays
lea / ley
leach / leech
lead (conduct / metal) / led
leak / leek
lean / lien
least / lest
lectern / podium / dais / pulpit
led / lead (conduct / metal)
leech / leach
leek / leak
leery (leary) / wary
left (remainder / depart)
lei / lay
less / fewer
lesser / lessor
lessor / lesser
lest / least
ley / lea
liar / lyre
lie (false / recline) / lye
lien / lean
lieu / loo
lightening / lightning
lightning / lightening
linage / lineage
lineage / linage
links / lynx
liqueur / liquor
liquor / liqueur
literal / littoral
littoral / literal
lo / low
load / lode
loan / lone
loath / loathe
loathe / loath
local / locale / locus
locale / locus / local
locks / lox
locus / local / locale
lode / load
lone / loan
longe / lunge
loo / lieu
loot / lute
low / lo
lower (descend / glower)
lox / locks
lunge / longe
lute / loot
luxuriant / luxurious
luxurious / luxuriant
lye / lie (false / recline)
lying / laying
lynx / links
lyre / liar
M
madam / madame
madame / madam
made / maid
mafia / maffia
maffia / mafia
magnate / magnet
magnet / magnate
maid / made
mail / male
main / mane
maize / maze
male / mail
mall / maul
mama / mamma
mamma / mama
mana / manna
mane / main
manna / mana
manner / manor
manor / manner
mantel / mantle
mantle / mantel
marches / marshes
marchland / marshland
mark / marque
marque / mark
marry / merry
marshal / martial
marshes / marches
marshland / marchland
martial / marshal
massif / massive
massive / massif
masterful / masterly
masterly / masterful
mat / matte (matt)
material / materiel
materiel / material
matte (matt) / mat
maul / mall
may be / maybe
maybe / may be
maze / maize
mean / mien
meat / mete / meet
medal / meddle
meddle / medal
meddlesome / mettlesome
mediation / arbitration
meet / meat / mete
meld / melt
melt / meld
meretricious / meritorious
meritorious / meretricious
merry / marry
metal / mettle
mete / meet / meat
mettle / metal
mettlesome / meddlesome
mien / mean
might / mite
migrate / emigrate / immigrate
milage / mileage
mileage / milage
militate / mitigate
mind / mined
mined / mind
miner / minor
miniscule
minor / miner
mischievious
missal / missile
missile / missal
mistress (madame / paramour)
mite / might
mitigate / militate
moan / mown
moat / mote
moderate (middling / preside)
moil / boil / roil
moose / mousse
moot (debatable / valueless) / mute
morning / mourning
mote / moat
mourning / morning
mousse / moose
moustache / mustache
movable / moveable
moveable / movable
mown / moan
mucous / mucus
mucus / mucous
muenster / munster
munster / muenster
muscle / mussel
mussel / muscle
mustache / moustache
mustard / mustered
mustered / mustard
mute / moot (debatable / valueless)
N
naivete / naivety
naivety / naivete
nap / knap
naught / not / knot
naughty / knotty
nauseated / nauseating / nauseous
nauseating / nauseous / nauseated
nauseous / nauseated / nauseating
naval / navel
navel / naval
nay / nee / neigh
nee / neigh / nay
need / knead
negatory / nugatory
neigh / nay / nee
new / knew
niggardly / niggerly
niggerly / niggardly
night / knight
nit / knit
no way / nohow (not "knowhow")
no / know
no body / nobody
nob / knob
nobody / no body
nohow (not "knowhow") / no way
noisome / noisy
noisy / noisome
non-flammable / unflammable
none / nun
normalcy / normality
normality / normalcy
nose / knows
not / knot / naught
nowheres
nugatory / negatory
nun / none
O
oar / or / ore
offal / awful
offer / proffer
oh / owe
on to / onto
one / won
onto / on to
opposite / apposite
or / ore / oar
oral / verbal
oral / aural
orate / aureate
ore / oar / or
oversight (unnoticed / supervise)
owe / oh
P
pail / pale
pain / pane
pair / pear / pare
palate / palette / pallet
pale / pail
palette / pallet / palate
pall / pawl
pallet / palate / palette
pane / pain
paradisaical / paradisiacal
paradisiacal / paradisaical
pare / pair / pear
parlay / parley
parley / parlay
passed / past
past / passed
pause / paws
pawl / pall
paws / pause
peace / piece
peak / peek / pique
peal / peel
pear / pare / pair
pearl / purl
peccant / piquant
pedal / peddle / petal
peddle / petal / pedal
peculate / speculate
pedal / peddle
pedaler / peddler
peddle / pedal
peddler / pedaler
peek / pique / peak
peel / peal
peer / pier
pencel / pencil / pensil / pensile
pencil / pensil / pensile / pencel
pendant / pendent / pennant
pendent / pennant / pendant
pennant / pendant / pendent
pensil / pensile / pencel / pencil
pensile / pencel / pencil / pensil
penultimate / ultimate
people / personnel / persons
perfuse / diffuse / suffuse
person / personage
personage / person
personnel / persons / people
persons / people / personnel
perspicacious / perspicuous
perspicacity / perspicuity
perspicuity / perspicacity
perspicuous / perspicacious
persuasion / suasion
pertinent / germane / appurtenant
peruse (thorough / desultory)
petal / pedal / peddle
petalless / petalous
petalous / petalless
phase / faze
phial / file
phlox / flocks
phlegm / phloem
phloem / phlegm
pi / pie
picaresque / picturesque
picks / pyx
picturesque / picaresque
pidgin / pigeon
pie / pi
piece / peace
pier / peer
pigeon / pidgin
pile / pyre
pincer / pincher / pinscher
pincher / pinscher / pincer
pinscher / pincer / pincher
piquant / peccant
pique / peak / peek
place / plaice
plaice / place
plain / plane
plane / plain
plastic (pliable / rigid)
pleas / please
please / pleas
plimsol / plimsole / plimsoll
plimsole / plimsoll / plimsol
plimsoll / plimsol / plimsole
plum / plumb
plumb / plum
plume / flume
poddidge / pottage / potage
podium / dais / pulpit / lectern
pole / poll
poll / pole
poor / pore / pour
populace / populous
populous / populace
pore / pour / poor
portamento / portmanteau
portmanteau / portamento
potage / poddidge / pottage
pother / bother
pottage / potage / poddidge
pouf (pouffe) / puff
pour / poor / pore
practicable / practical
practical / practicable
praise / prays
pray / prey
prays / praise
precedence / precedents
precedents / precedence
precipitant / precipitate / precipitous
precipitate / precipitous / precipitant
precipitous / precipitant / precipitate
predominant / preponderant
premier / premiere
premiere / premier
preponderant / predominant
prescribe / proscribe
preventative / preventive
preventive / preventative
prey / pray
primer (textbook / undercoat / ignitor)
principal / principle
principle / principal
prise / prize
prize / prise
profess / confess
proffer / offer
profit / prophet
prone / supine
pronounce / pronunciation
pronouncement / pronunciate / enunciate
pronunciate / enunciate / pronouncement
pronunciation / pronounce
prophet / profit
propinquity / proximity
proscribe / prescribe
prostate / prostrate
prostrate / prostate
prototype / archetype / holotype
provenance / providence
providence / provenance
proximal / distal
proximity / propinquity
psi / sigh
puff / pouf (pouffe)
pulpit / lectern / podium / dais
purblind / sand-blind / blind
purl / pearl
pyre / pile
pyx / picks
Q
quarrel (dispute / arrow)
quail / quale
quale / quail
quash / squash
quaver / quiver
quay / cay / key
quean / queen
queen / quean
queue / cue
quiddity (essence / trifle)
quire / choir
quiver / quaver
quoin / coin
R
rack / wrack
rain / reign / rein
raise Cain
raise / rays / raze
raison d'état / raison d'être
raison d'être / raison d'état
rap / wrap
rapine / raping
raping / rapine
rapped / rapt / wrapped
rapscallion / rascalian
rapt / wrapped / rapped
rascalian / rapscallion
rase / raze
ravage / ravish
ravish / ravage
rays / raze / raise
raze / raise / rays
raze / rase
razer / razor
razor / razer
read / reed
read / red
real / reel
reave / reeve
rebound / redound
red / read
redound / rebound
reed / read
reek / wreak
reel / real
reeve / reave
refer / allude
reign / rein / rain
rein / rain / reign
reluctant / reticent
remark / remarque
remarque / remark
remittent / renitent
rend / rent (fee / fissure)
renitent / remittent
rent (fee / fissure) / rend
repost / riposte
rest / wrest
restive / restless
restless / restive
restrain / constrain
retch / wretch
reticle / reticule
reticule / reticle
review / revue
revue / review
rho / roe / row (line / fight / paddle)
rhyme / rime
riffle / rifle / ruffle
rifle / ruffle / riffle
right / rite / write / wright
rime / rhyme
ring / wring
riposte / repost
rite / write / wright / right
road / rode / rowed
rode / rowed / road
roe / row (line / fight / paddle) / rho
roil / moil / boil
roil / royal
role / roll
roll / role
root / rout / route
rot / wrought
rote / wrote
rough / ruff
rouse / arouse / roust / rout
roust / rout / rouse / arouse
rout / rouse / arouse / roust
rout / route / root
route / root / rout
row (line / fight / paddle) / rho / roe
rowed / road / rode
royal / roil
rude / crude
ruff / rough
ruffle / riffle / rifle
rung / wrung
rye / wry
S
sac / sack / sacque
sack / sacque / sac
sacque / sac / sack
sail / sale
sale / sail
sanatorium / sanitarium
sand-blind / purblind / blind
sanguine (cheerful / bloody)
sanitarium / sanatorium
scalawag / scallawag / scallywag
scallawag / scallywag / scalawag
scallywag / scalawag
scene / seen
scent / sent / cent
scrip / script
script / scrip
scull / skull
sea / see
sealing / ceiling
seam / seem
sear / seer / sere
seas / seize / sees
see / sea
seed / cede
seem / seam
seen / scene
seer / sere / sear
sees / seas / seize
seize / sees / seas
sell / cell
seller / cellar
sensor / censer / censor
sent / cent / scent
sere / sear / seer
serendipitous / fortuitous / fortunate
serette / curette
serial / cereal
set / sit
sew / so / sow
shake / sheik
shear / sheer
sheer / shear
sheik / shake
shiver / sliver
shone / shown
shoot / chute
shown / shone
shrift / shrive
shrive / shrift
side / sighed
sigh / psi
sighed / side
sighs / size
sight / site / cite
sign / sine
signet / cygnet
simulate / emulate / imitate
sine / sign
sit / set
site / cite / sight
size / sighs
skull / scull
slacked / slackened
slackened / slacked
slay / sleigh
sleigh / slay
sleight / slight
slew / slough / slue
slight / sleight
sliver / shiver
sloe / slow
slough / slue / slew
slow / sloe
slue / slew / slough
smirch / besmirch
smithery / smithy
smithy / smithery
snuck
so / sow / sew
soak / soke
soar / sore
soared / sword
sobriquet / soubrette
soke / soak
sole / soul
some body / somebody
some time / sometime
some one / someone
some / sum
somebody / some body
someone / some one
sometime / some time
somewheres
son / sun
sore / soar
soubrette / sobriquet
soul / sole
sow / sew / so
spade / spayed
spare / sparse
sparse / spare
spayed / spade
special / especial
speculate / conjecture / surmise / hypothesize / suppose
speculate / peculate
spine / chine
spoil / despoil
spoor / spore
spore / spoor
spy / espy
squash / quash
staid / stayed
stair / stare
stake / steak
stalactite / stalagmite
stalagmite / stalactite
stanch / staunch
stare / stair
stationary / stationery
stationery / stationary
staunch / stanch
stayed / staid
steak / stake
steal / steel
steel / steal
stile / style
storage / stowage
storey / story
story / storey
stowage / storage
straight / strait
strait / straight
style / stile
suasion / persuasion
submerse / immerse
subtile / subtle
subtle / subtile
suffuse / perfuse / diffuse
suite / sweet
sum / some
sun / son
supine / prone
suppliant / supplicant
supplicant / suppliant
suppose / speculate / conjecture / surmise / hypothesize
surmise / hypothesize / suppose / speculate / conjecture
suspiration / susurration
susurration / suspiration
swale / swell
swat / swot (smack / study)
swath / swathe
swathe / swath
sweet / suite
swell / swale
sword / soared
swot (smack / study) / swat
symbol / cymbal
sympathy / empathy
syncline / anticline / decline / incline
T
tabor / taper / tapir
tack / tact
tacks / tax
tact / tack
tail / tale
tale / tail
taper / tapir / tabor
tapir / tabor / taper
tare / tier / tear (drop / rend)
tartar / tatar
tatar / tartar
taught / taut
taut / taught
tax / tacks
tea / tee
team / teem
tear (drop / rend) / tare / tier
tee / tea
teem / team
telecomm / telecon
telecon / telecomm
tern / terne / turn
terne / turn / tern
terrain / terrane
terrane / terrain
than / then
that / which
their / they're / there
theirn (their'n)
then / than
thence / thenceforth / whereupon / whence
thenceforth / thence / whereupon / whence
there / their / they're
therefor / therefore
therefore / therefor
they're / there / their
threw / through
throe / throw
throne / thrown
through / threw
throw / throe
thrown / throne
thule / tule
thunk
thyme / time
tic (tic douloureux) / tick
tick / tic (tic douloureux)
tide / betide / betise
tide / tied
tied / tide
tier / tear (drop / rend) / tare
time / thyme
tip / topple
titillate / titivate
titivate / titillate
title / entitle
to / with
to / too / two
toile / tool
too / two / to
tool / toile
topple / tip
tort / torte
torte / tort
tortuous / torturous
torturous / tortuous
tough / tuff
traipse / trapes
translucent / transparent
transparent / translucent
transpire / inspire
trapes / traipse
tricorn / tricorne
tricorne / tricorn
troop / troupe
troupe / troop
trustee / trusty
trusty / trustee
tuff / tough
tule / thule
turbid / turgid
turgid / turbid
turn / tern / terne
two / to / too
U
ultimate / penultimate
unflammable / non-flammable
unique / unusual
uninhabitable / inhabitable / habitable
unkempt / unkept
unkept / unkempt
unusual / unique
unwanted / unwonted
unwonted / unwanted
up on / upon
upon / up on
urn / earn / erne
utopia / eutopia
V
vacation / vocation
vail / veil / vale
vain / vein / vane
vale / dale / dell
vale / vail / veil
vane / vain / vein
veil / vale / vail
vein / vane / vain
venal / venial
venial / venal
veracity / voracity
verbal / oral
vertex / vortex
vial / vile
vile / vial
villain / villein
villein / villain
visor / blind
vocation / vacation
voracity / veracity
vortex / vertex
W
wacky / whacky
waddy / wadi (wady)
wadi (wady) / waddy
wail / wale / whale
wain / wane
waist / waste
waiver / waver
wale / whale / wail
wane / wain
want / wont
war / wore
ware / wear / where
warn / worn
wary / leery (leary)
waste / waist
watt / what
waver / waiver
wax / whacks
way / weigh / whey
we / wee
we're / weir
weak / week
wear / where / ware
weather (withstand / change) / wether / whether
wee / we
week / weak
weigh / whey / way
weir / we're
well / good
wen / when
wend / wind
wet / whet
wether / whether / weather (withstand / change)
whacks / wax
whacky / wacky
whale / wail / wale
what / watt
what ever / whatever
whatever / what ever
when / wen
whence / whereupon / thence / thenceforth
where / ware / wear
whereupon / whence / thence / thenceforth
whet / wet
whether / weather (withstand / change) / wether
whey / way / weigh
which / that
which / witch
while / wile
whin / win
whine / wine
whirled / world
whirred / word
whit / wit
white / wight
who ever / whoever
who so ever / whosoever
who / whom
who's / whose
whoever / who ever
whole / hole
wholly / holey / holy
whom / who
whom ever / whomever
whomever / whom ever
whose / who's
whosoever / who so ever
wight / white
wile / while
win / whin
wind / wend
wind / wynd
windlass / windless
windless / windlass
wine / whine
wit / whit
witch / which
with / to
won / one
wont / want
wood / would
word / whirred
wore / war
world / whirled
worn / warn
would / wood
wrack / rack
wrap / rap
wrapped / rapped / rapt
wreak / reek
wrest / rest
wretch / retch
wright / right / rite / write
wring / ring
write / wright / right / rite
wrote / rote
wrought / rot
wrung / rung
wry / rye
wynd / wind
X
Y
yew / you / ewe
yoke / yolk
yolk / yoke
yore / your / you're
you / ewe / yew
you-all (y'all)
you-uns (you-ens)
you'll / yule
you're / yore / your
your / you're / yore
yourn (your'n)
youse
yule / you'll
Z