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It’s pretty common to hear a word and find out later that it has a different spelling or meaning. It’s also pretty embarrassing if you’re caught on that mishap, especially if you’re writing it professionally and distributing it as a PDF. But sometimes, you just can’t help it because there are really some words that sound the same. These confusing words that are pronounced the same but have different meanings and spellings have a name and it's called homophones.

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What are homophones?

According to the Oxford dictionary, homophones are “two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling.” Each set of words provide the same sound or group of sounds but aren’t necessarily synonymous. For example, the words new and knew both sounds the same but the meaning of the first word connotes being the first time to exist while the second word means being aware of. Both have different spellings and different meanings but they are both pronounced the same way, which can lead to confusion and misinterpretation if not used correctly.

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In the English dictionary, there are plenty of homophone pairs that may really confuse an individual so to help you correct your content and have the perfect PDF, we’ve compiled a list of common words that you may possibly encounter. These well-known words can confuse you or your reader so be sure to use the right one!

Word	Meaning	Homophone	Meaning
Air	Gaseous substance	Heir	A person entitled to property
Aisle	Passage	Isle	Small island
Ante-	Before	Anti-	Against
Eye	Part of the body to see	I	Referring to self
Bear	Animal	Bare	Without addition
Be	Take place	Bee	Insect
Break	To separate	Brake	To stop
Buy	Spending	By	Identifying person
Cell	Smallest structural unit in an organism	Sell	Giving in exchange for money
Cent	Money	Scent	Something you smell
Cereal	Food	Serial	Identifying number
Coarse	Rough	Course	Path or way
Complement	What completes it	Compliment	To praise
Dam	A barrier	Damn	Condemned
Dear	Regarded with deep affection	Deer	An animal
Die	End of life	Dye	Substance to color
Fair	Equal	Fare	Fee of passengers
Fir	Tree	Fur	Soft hair of animals
For	Used to indicate who is given	Four	Number
Hair	Part of the body	Hare	Animal
Heal	Cure	Heel	Back part of foot
Hear	Be told	Here	Place or position
Him	Boy person	Hymn	Religious song
Hole	Hallow place	Whole	Entire/all of it
Hour	Time	Our	Belonging
Idle	Avoiding work	Idol	Admired person
In	Enclosed around	Inn	Establishment for accommodation
Knight	Soldier in armor	Night	Period of darkness
Knot	Fasten	Not	Negative clause
Know	Aware	No	Negatiev response
Made	Past tense of make	Maid	Person who cleans
Mail	Letters and packages	Male	Man / Boy
Meat	Flesh	Meet	Organized event
Morning	Time between midnight and noon	Mourning	Sad
None	Nothing	Nun	Member of religious group
Oar	Used to row a boat	Or	Linking alternatives
One	Number	Won	Success
Pair	Two	Pear	Fruit
Peace	Freedom from disturbance	Piece	A part
Plain	Not decorated	Plane	Airborne object
Poor	Lacking money	Pour	Flow
Pray	Solemn request	Prey	Animal that is hunted
Principal	First and important	Principle	Foundation for system of belief
Profit	Financial gain	Prophet	Teacher
Real	Existing	Reel	A cylinder where things are wound
Right	Correct / position	Write	Mark on a surface
Sail	Wind catching apparatus	Sale	Item in exchange for money
Sea	Water	See	Visual representation
Seam	A line on fabric when sewn together	Seem	Given the impression
Sight	Seeing	Site	Area or ground
Sew	Join	So	An adverb or conjunction
Sole	Part of foot	Soul	Spiritual
Some	Unspecified amount	Sum	Total
Son	Male child	Sun	A Atar
Stair	Set of steps	Stare	To look
Stationary	Not moving	Stationery	Paper
Steal	Get without permission	Steel	A strong alloy
Suite	A set of rooms	Sweet	Sugary taste
Tail	Part of an animal	Tale	Story
Their	Belonging	There	Place or position
To	In the direction of	Too	Excessive
Toe	Part of a foot	Tow	To pull a vehicle
Waist	Part of a body below the ribs	Waste	Excess without purpose or trash
Wait	Delay action	Weight	Body mass
Way	Path	Weigh	Find out how heavy
Weak	Lacking power	Week	Period of seven days
Wear	To have on a body	Where	Place or position

So now that you’ve actually read through the whole article, you can now say you can understand and create more effective PDF documents!

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