Two (or more) differently spelled words with different meanings are homophones if they are nonetheless pronounced the same, e.g., ‘right’, ‘rite’, ‘wright’ and ‘write’; ‘read’ (most tenses of verb) and ‘reed’; ‘read’ (past, past participle) and ‘red’. This list includes only a few homophones although incorrect use of homophones is a common error. The following words from the list are all correct English words, though often incorrectly used in place of their homophones.

• Advice
• Affect
• Artic
• Aweful
• Breath
• Calender
• Capital
• Dose
• Lightening
• Loosing
• Principal
• Stomping
• They’re
• Wether
• You’re