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Pálabras homófonas en inglés

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning (Vamos, dos palabras que significan distintas cosas, pero que suenan igual)

/ i: /

(The same vowel as in "tea")
B / bee , be
C / sea , see
T / tea
heal / heel
scene / seen (pp)
peace / piece
meat / meet
weak / week
steal / steel

/ ei /

(the same vowel as in "name")
tale / tail
sale / sail
pale / pail
whale / wail
rain / reign
male / mail
May / may
way / weigh
ate (US) / eight
wait / weight
waste / waist
pray / prey
brake / break
stake / steak

/ e /

(the same vowel as in "bed")
sell / cell
sent / scent

/ æ /

(the same vowel as in "cat")
dam / damn
ant / aunt

/ ∧ /

(the same vowel as in "bus")
sun / son
one / won
some / sum

/ u /

(the same vowel as in "good")
wood / would

/ u: /

(the same vowel as in "two")
U / you / ewe
to / too / two
due / dew
flu / flew
whose / who's

/ ay /

(the same vowel as in "eye")
i / eye
hi / high
by / buy / bye
right / write
night / knight
site / sight

/ aw /

(the same vowel as in "how")
flower / flour

/ əw /

(the same vowel as in "so")
O / owe
no / know
so / sew / sow
rode / road
nose / knows
hole / whole
pole / poll
role / roll
sole / soul
lone / loan

/ o:(r) /

(the same vowel as in "war")
war / wore (pt)
core / corps
born / borne (pp)
warn / worn (pp)
morning / mourning

/iə(r)/

(the same vowel as in "here")

here / hear

dear / deer

/eə(r)/

(the same vowel as in "air")
air / heir
fair / fare
pair / pear
wear / where / ware
there / their / they're
flair / flare