accede – exceed
accept – except
access - assess - excess
acclimation – acclamation
accused – accursed
acetic – ascetic
adapt – adept
addition – addiction - audition
adverse - averse
advice – advise
aesthetic - esthetic
affect – effect
affluent – effluent
afterward – afterword
aid – aide
ail – ale
air - err
all – awl
allowed – aloud
allude – elude
allusion – illusion
allusive – elusive – illusive
ally – alley
altar – alter
alteration – altercation
amateur – armature
amoral – immoral
anecdotally – antidotally
angel –angle
ant – aunt
appraise - apprise
arc - ark
artist - artiste
ascribe – subscribe
assistance – assistants
attendance – attendants
attenuate – extenuate
auger – augur
awful – offal

bail – bale
baited – bated
ball – bawl
ballet – ballot
balm - bomb
band – banned
bare – bear
barley – barely
baron – barren
base – bass
bauble - bobble
bawdy – body
bazaar – bizarre
beat – beet
bellow - below
berth – birth
bite – byte
bleating – bleeding
boar - boor - bore
board – bored
boarder – border
born – borne
borough – borrow
bot – bought
brake – break
breach – breech
bread – bred
bridal – bridle
brows – browse
bruit - brute
bus - buss
buy – by – bye

cache – cash
calendar – colander
calibre – caliper
callers - collars
cannon – canon
capital – capitol
carat – carrot
career – carrier
caught – cot
caulk – cock
ceased – seized
cede – seed
cell – sell
cellar – seller
censor – censure – sensor
cent - scent – sent
chalk – chock
chance – chants
charted – chartered
chased – chaste
cheap – cheep
chord – cord
chute – shoot
cite – sight – site
closer – closure
cloths – clothes
coarse – course
coffin – coughing
collaborate - corroborate
collage – college
collared – collard
complement – compliment
composer – composure
comprised – compromised
confidante – confident
convert – covert
contends – contents
coop – coupe
cops – copse
copyright – copywrite
coral – corral
council – counsel
councilor – counselor
coward – cowered
creak – creek
cue – queue
currant – current
cymbal – symbol

dawn – don
days – daze
dear – deer
debit - debt
deceased – diseased
decent – descent
defiantly - definitely – definitively
defuse – diffuse
delude – dilute
deprecate - depreciate
desert – dessert
desperate – disparate
dew – do – due
die – dye
dire - dyer
disapprove – disprove
discreet – discrete
discussed – disgust
disdain – distain – distrain
doe – dough
draft - drat
dual – duel
dually - dully – duly
dud – dude

elicit - illicit
emigrate – immigrate
eminent – imminent -- immanent
eminent – emanate
enquire – inquire
enquiry - inquiry
ensure – insure
envelop – envelope
envious – jealous
envy – jealousy
ewe - you
exacerbate - exasperate
exercise – exorcise
expansive – expensive
expandable – expendable
expedient – expeditious

faint – feint
fail – flail
fair – fare
fairy – ferry
farther - further
fate – fete
faze – phase
feat – feet
fewer – less
figuratively – literally
filed – filled
final – finale
finally – finely
flair – flare
flea – flee
flour – flower
flounder – founder
floundered – foundered
flu – flue
for – fore – four
foreward – forward
formally - formerly
foul – fowl

gait – gate
gorilla – guerrilla
grate – great
grater – greater
grisly - grizzly
groan – grown
guessed – guest

hairy – harry
hail - hale
hall – haul
hangar - hanger
hardy – hearty
heal – heel
hear – here
heard – herd
hearsay – heresy
hew - hue
higher – hire
him – hymn
hoard – horde
hoarse – horse
hold – holed
hole – whole
humerus – humorous
hurdle – hurtle
husting - hustling

idle - idol
illicit – elicit
impassable – impossible
imply - infer
incentive - intensive
incite – insight
incompetence – incompetents
incredible – incredulous
intense - intents
intentionally - internationally
intimate – intimidate
innocence – innocents
its - it's

knew – new
knead – need
knock – nock
know – no
knows- nose – noes

lager – logger
lam – lamb
laps – lapse
leak – leek
lean - lien
led – lead
lessen – lesson
liable – libel
lie – lye
lighting – lightning – lightening
links – lynx
load - lode
loan – lone
loaner – loner
loath – loathe
loop – loupe
loose – lose
looser – loser

madder – matter
made – maid
magnate – magnet
mail – male
mailable – malleable
main – mane
mall – maul
mandolin – mandoline
manner – manor
mark – marque
marry – merry
marshal – martial
meat – meet
medal – meddle – metal – mettle
mediation – meditation
memorize – mesmerize
might – mite
mind – mined
missed – mist
moot – mute
moral – morale
morn – mourn
morning – mourning

naval – navel
naught – not – knot
naughty – knotty
nay – neigh
none – nun

oar – or
of – off
one – won
ones – once
orchard – orchid
ordinance – ordnance
oriented – orientated
outage – outrage
over - overt

pain – pane
parameter – perimeter
palate – palette – pallet
parity – parody
passed – past
patent – patient
patented – patinated
patience – patients
pause – paws
pawed – pod
peace – peas
peak – peek – pique
peal – peel
pedal – peddle – petal
peer – pier
penal – penile
personal – personnel
perspective – prospective
picture – pitcher
pistil – pistol
plain – plane
planing – planning
pleas – please
plod – plot
plodder – plotter
polish – Polish
poll – pole – Pole
poor – pore – pour
populace - populous
pray – prey
precede – proceed
precedent – president
precedential - presidential
premise – premises
presence – presents
presents – presets
pride – pried
principal – principle
profit – prophet
pudding – putting
purposefully – purposely

quiet – quite

rain – rein – reign
rap – wrap
rapt – wrapped
rappel - repel
real – reel
reek – wreak
reference – referents
residence – residents
rest – wrest
riggers – rigors
right – rite – write
rhyme – rime
ring – wring
road – rode
rogue - rouge
role – roll
root – route
rose – rows
roux – rue
rye – wry

sac – sack
saddest – sadist
sail – sale
scar – scare
scared – scarred
scene – seen
scent - sent
scents – sense
scull - skull
sea – see
seam – seem
secede – succeed
secession – succession
secret – secrete
serf – surf
sew – so – sow
shear – sheer
shudder – shutter
sighs – size
sign – sine
simulate – stimulate
slay – sleigh
sleight – slight
soar – sore
sole – soul
some - sum
spilt – split
spineless – spinless
spitting - splitting
spurned - spurred
staid - stayed
stake – steak
stalker – stocker
stationary – stationery
steal – steel
stoke – stroke
strait – straight
subsides – subsidies
subtlety – subtly
suit – suite
suite – sweet
sundae – Sunday
super - supper
systematic - systemic

taught – taut
tea – tee
team – teem
tear – tier
tenancy – tendency
tenants – tenets
tensile – tinsel
terrier – terroir – terror
than - then
that – which
that – who
their – there – they’re
tic – tick
tide – tied
till – ‘til
thorough – through
thou - though
threw – through
throne - thrown
to – too – two – 2
toad – towed
toe – tow
told – tolled
tongue – tung
track – tract
trail – trial
travails – travels
treaties - treatise
Tudor – tutor

udder – utter
uncharted – unchartered
underlie – underline
underling – underlining – underlying
uniformed – uninformed

vain – vane – vein
vale – veil
vary – very
variance – variants
verses - versus
vial – vile
vice – vise
vicious - viscous
violet – violent

wander- wonder
waved – waived
wail – whale
wait – weight
waist – waste
ware – wear – were – where
wary – weary
waver – waiver
way – whey
weak – week
weather – whether
were – we’re
wet – whet
which – witch
while – wile
whine – wine
whirled – world
who – whom
who’s – whose
worse – worst

 

yoke - yolk
yore - you’re - your