ইংরেজিতে প্রায় সমোচ্চারিত ভিন্নার্থক শব্দ

ইংরেজিতে এমন অনেক শব্দ আছে যাদের উচ্চারণ প্রয় একই, কিন্তু অর্থ ভিন্ন হয়ে থাকে। এদেরকে homophone বলা হয়ে থাকে। এরকম কিছু শব্দের তালিকা নিচে দেয়া হলো।

• accede, axseed, exceed
• accept, except
• access, excess
• ad, add
• adapt, adept, adopt
• advice, advise
• affect, effect
• afflict, inflict
• air, eir
• ait, ate, eight
• allusion, illusion
• altar, alter
• assay, essay
• aught, ought
• aye, eye, I
• back, beck
• bad, bade
• bag, beg
• bail, bale, veil
• bank, bunk
• bare, bear
• be, bee
• beach, beech, bitch
• bean, been, bin
• belie, belle, belly, valley
• berry, bury, very
• berth, birth
• better, bettor, bitter
• board, bored
• boat, vote
• bone, bane, boon
• born, borne, bourn, bourne
• brake, break
• bread, bred, breed
• breeze, bridge
• bulb, valve
• Cache, Cash
• calendar, calender
• can, cane
• cannon, canon
• canvas, canvass
• career, carrier
• cast, caste
• casual, causal
• ceiling, sealing
• cell, sail, sale, sell, shell
• cense, sense
• cent, saint, scent, sent
• cereal, serial
• certain, curtain
• cession, season, session
• cete, seat, sit
• chap, cheap, cheep, chip
• check, cheque
• chord, cord
• cite, sight, site
• clan, clean
• coal, cole, cool, kohl
• coarse, corse, course
• collisioin, collusion
• coma, comma
• come, cum
• complement, compliment
• concent, consent
• confidant, confident
• contact, contract
• coo, coup
• corporal, corporeal
• corps, corpse, crops
• cosign, cosine
• costume, custom
• council, counsel
• courier, currier
• courtesy, curtesy
• coward, cowered
• cue, queue
• currant, current
• curser, cursor
• dairy, diary
• dare, dear, deer
• decease, disease
• decent, descent, dissent
• defer, differ
• deference, difference
• dependant, dependent
• desert, dessert
• die, dye
• do, doe, dough
• draft, draught, drought
• ear, year
• east, yeast
• elicit, illicit
• eligible, illegible
• emerge, immerge
• eminent, immanent, imminent
• esquire, square, squire
• estate, state
• expert, export
• eyed, I’d
• facility, felicity
• fair, fare
• far, fir, fur
• farce, force
• farm, firm
• farming, pharming
• fiction, friction
• filter, philter
• find, fined
• fishing, phishing
• flour, flower
• for, fore, four
• forth, fourch
• foul, fowl
• gait, gate
• gaol, jail
• genes, jeans
• genteel, gentile, gentle
• germ, gram
• ghastly, ghostly
• gneiss, nice, niece
• gnu, knew, new
• grate, great, greet
• greave, grieve
• groan, grown
• hail, hale, hell
• hair, hare
• hangar, hanger
• hart, heart
• haven, heaven
• hay, hey
• heal, heel
• hear, here
• heard, herd
• heigh, hi, hie, high
• height, hight
• hence, hens
• heroin, heroine
• higher, hire
• him, hymn
• hold, holed
• hole, whole
• holey, holy, wholly
• hostel, hostile
• hour, our
• human, humane
• humerus, humorous
• idle, idol
• imprudent, impudent
• in, inn
• incite, insight
• injection, injunction
• it’s, its
• jealous, zealous
• knight, night
• knot, not
• knows, noes, nose
• lade, laid, layed
• lain, lane
• lam, lamb
• laps, lapse
• later, latter, letter
• launch, lunch
• leaf, lief
• leak, leek
• least, list
• leave, lieve
• leaver, lever
• lessen, lesson
• lie, lye
• lieu, loo
• light, lite
• lightening, lightning
• load, lode, lowed
• loan, lone
• loose, lose
• made, maid
• magnate, magnet
• mail, male
• main, mane
• mall, maul
• manager, manger
• manner, manor
• mantel, mantle
• marc, mark, marque
• marshal, martial
• mask, masque
• meat, meet, mete
• medal, meddle, middle
• metal, mettle
• mind, mined
• moral, morale
• morn, mourn
• morning, mourning
• naval, navel
• odd, ode, owed
• one, won
• paced, paste, pest
• pack, peck, pick
• paid, payed
• pail, pale
• pain, pane
• pair, pare, pear, pere
• palace, place
• palate, palette, pallet
• pan, pen
• parol, parole, payroll
• parson, person
• past, passed
• patience, patients
• patrol, petrel, petrol
• pea, pee
• peace, pice, piece
• peak, peek, peke, pique
• penni, penny
• people, pupil, pupal
• personal, personnel
• physic, physique
• piety, pity
• plain, plan, plane
• pole, poll
• poor, pore, pour, pure
• praise, prase, prays, preys
• pray, prey
• precede, proceed
• premier, premiere
• prescribe, proscribe
• principal, principle
• pros, prose
• quiet, quit, quite
• rack, wrack
• rain, reign, rein
• raise, rase, rays
• rang, wrang
• rap, wrap
• reach, rich
• read, red, redd
• real, reel
• receipt, reseat
• recite, resight
• reck, wreck
• refuge, refuse
• register, registrar
• remainder, reminder
• resister, resistor
• rest, wrest
• review, revue
• rhyme, rime
• rice, rise, ryes, ryse
• right, rite, wright, write
• ring, wring
• road, rode, rowed
• role, roll
• rood, rude, rued
• root, route, wrote
• rote, wrote
• salient, silent
• sample, simple
• sea, see, she
• seed, cede
• seize, siege
• self, shelf
• sheep, ship
• shine, sign
• shoe, shoo, show
• shore, soar, sore
• shower, sour
• snack, snake
• soap, soup
• soil, sol, sole, soul
• some, sum
• son, sun, sunn
• sooth, soothe
• spelt, spilt, split
• spoor, spore
• staff, staph, stuff
• stationary, stationery
• steal, steel, stele, still
• straight, strait
• suit, soot
• suite, sweat, sweet
• tail, tale
• taste, test
• team, teem
• than, then
• their, there, they’re
• throne, thrown
• tide, tied
• tie, tye
• tire, tyer, tyre
• To, Too, Two
• toe, tow
• told, tolled
• tole, toll
• tough, tuff
• tri, try
• trustee, trusty
• turban, turbine
• urban, urbane
• variety, verity
• waist, waste
• wait, weight
• waive, wave
• wand, want
• wander, wonder
• ward, warred, word
• warrantee, warrranty
• we’ve, weave
• weak, week, wick
• weather, wether, whether
• wet, whet
• whale, while, wile
• wheat, white
• yore, you’re, your