Homonyms

notes on sources, etc. · words for further study
same table but with links to some of the obscure terms

 

A
a	eh
a	uh
aargh	aarrr	are	R
ab	abb
abaisse (thin undercrust of pastry)	abase
Acadian	Akkadian
accepter	acceptor
accidence	accidents
acclamation	acclimation
acephalous	acephalus
acher	acre
actin	actine	acton
acts	ax(e)
ad	add
Adam	atom
adder	attar (a type of fragrance)
addition	edition
adds	ads	adze
ade	aid	aide
ades	aids	aides	AIDS
adherence	adherents
adieu	ado
admittance	admitants
adolescence	adolescents
adventuress	adventurous
aerial	ariel
aerie	airy
aerie	eerie
aero	arrow
affect	effect
ah	awe
ail	ale
air	e'er	ere	err	heir
airer	errer	error
aisle	I'll	isle
all	awl
allowed	aloud
altar	alter
an	Ann
analyst	annalist
ant	aunt
ante	anti	auntie (or aunty)
apatite	appetite
appose	oppose
apps	apse
arc	ark
as (ancient Roman copper coin)	ass
ascent	assent
assistance	assistants
ate	eight
attendance	attendants
auger	augur
aught	ought
aural	oral
aureole	oriole
auricle	oracle
autarchy	autarky
away	aweigh
awed	od	odd
aweful	awful	offal
awn	on
axel	axil	axle
axes	axis
aye	eye	I

 

B
b	be	Bea	bee
baa	bah
bach [i.e. bachelor]	batch
bad	bade
bade	bayed
bail	bale	bay'll
bailer	bailor	baler
bailey	bailie
bailing	baling
bait	bate
baize	bays	beys
bald	balled	bawled
balk	bock
ball	bawl
balm	bomb	bombe
band	banned
bang	bhang
bans	banns
bar	barre
bard	barred
bare	bear
baring	bearing
bark	barque
baron	barren
barrel	beryl
basal	basil
base	bass
based	baste
bases	basis	basses
basest	bassist
basinet	bassinet
bask	Basque
bat	batt
baud	bawd	bod
bawdy	body
bay	bey
bazaar	bizarre
beach	beech
beady	bidi
bean	been
beat	beet
beau	bow
beaut	butte
been	bin
beer	bier
beetle	betel
bel	bell	belle
belligerence	belligerents
benzene	benzine
berg	burg
berry	bury	(Barry)
berth	birth
better	bettor
bib	bibb
big	bigg
bight	bite	byte	(His barque is bigger than his bight.)
bilboes	bilbos
billed	build
bird	burd	burred
birr	bur	burr
bit	bitt
blend	blende (another word for sphalerite)
blew	blue
blight	blite
bloc	block
boar	bore	(Boer)
board	bored
boarder	border
boat	bote
bocks	box
bode	bowed
bogey	bogie
bolar	bowler
bold	bolled	bowled
bolder	boulder
bole	boll	bowl
bomb	bombe
bombard	bombarde
boos	booze
bootie	booty
born	borne	bourn	(bourne=archaic term for a boundary)
borough	burro	burrow
bot	bought
bough	bow
boughs	bows	bowse
bouillon	bullion
boy	buoy
bra	brah	braw
brae	bray
braes	braise	brays	braze
braid	brayed
brail (nautical term)	braille
brain	brane
brake	break
breach	breech
breaches	breeches
bread	bred
bream	brim
brede	breed
brewed	brood
brews	bruise
bricks	Brix
bridal	bridle
broach	brooch
broom	brume (fog or mist)
brows	browse
brr	bur	burr
bruit	brut	brute
buccal	buckle
bullie	bully
bundt	bunt
burger	burgher
burro	borough	burrow
bus	buss
bused	bussed	bust
but	butt
buy	by	bye
buyer	byre

 

C
c	sea	see
cache	cash
cachou	cashew
caddie	caddy
Cain	cane
calaber	caliber
calendar	calender
calix	calyx
calk	caulk	cock
calks	caulks	cocks	cox
call	caul	col
caller	choler	collar
callous	callus
came	kame
canape(s)	canopy(ies)
cannon	canon
can't	cant
canter	cantor
canvas	canvass
capelin	capeline (certain kind of helmet)
capital	capitol
carat	caret	carrot	karat
caries	carries	karris
carol	carrel
carpal	carpel (a pistil)
carry	karri
cart	carte	kart
cask	casque
cast	caste
caster	castor
caudal	caudle (an ancient drink)	coddle
caught	cot
cause	caws
cawed	cod
cay	K	quay
cay	key	ki	quay
cedar	seeder
cede	seed		(c. seed)
ceil	seal	seel (deceive)
ceiling	sealing	seeling
cel	cell	sell
cellar	seller
cense	cents	scents	sense
censer	censor	sensor
cent	scent	sent
cercus (a tail-like appendage)	circus
cere	sear	seer	sere
cereal	serial
Ceres	series
cereus (a type of cactus	serious
cession	session
cetaceous	setaceous
chalk	chock
champagne	champaign
chance	chants
chard	charred
chary	cherry
chased	chaste
cheap	cheep
check	Czech
Cher	share
chews	choose
chic	sheik
chili	chilly	(Chile)
choir	quire
choral	coral
chorale	corral
chord	cord	cored
chordate	cordate
chott	shot
chou (a type of cabbage)	shoe	shoo	(shew)
chough	chuff
chow	ciao
chronical	chronicle
chute	shoot
cider	sider
cingle	single
cinque	sink	sync
cirrus	scirrhus (a hard tumor)	serous
cist	cyst	sist
cite	sight	site
cited	sighted	sited
clack	claque
clanger	clangor
clatch	klatch
Claus	clause	claws
clew	clou	clue
click	clique	klick (a kilometer)
climb	clime
close	clothes	cloze
coal	cole	kohl
coaled	cold
coaming	combing
coarse	corse (a corpse)	course
coarser	courser
coat	cote
coax	cokes
cob	kob
coco	cocoa
coddling	codling
coff	cough	koff (a two-masted Dutch sailing vessel)
coffer	cougher
coif	quaff
coign	coin	quoin
cokes	coax
colation (filtration)	collation
collard	collared
collie	colly
colonel	kernal
color	culler
come	cum
competence	competents
complacence	complaisance
complacent	complaisant
complement	compliment
concent	consent
concenter	consenter
conch	conk
conker	conquer
conkers	conquers
consonance	consonants
continence	continents
coo	coup
coolie	coolly	coulee
coop	coupe
cop	kop
copped	Copt
cops	copse
copy	kopje
coquet	coquette
core	corps	cor (expression of surprise)
cores	corps
correspondence	correspondents
cosher	kosher
cosign	cosine
cottar	cotter
council	counsel
councilor	counselor
cousin	cozen
coward	cowered
cowrie (a kind of marine mollusk)	kaurie (a kind of tree)
coy	koi
craft	kraft (a kind of paper)
Crays	craze
creak	creek
crease	kris (a kind of dagger)
Cretan	cretin
crew	cru	Kru
crewed	crude
crewel	cruel
crews	cruise	cruse
croaker	croker
croc	crock
cross	crosse (the stick used in lacrosse)
crows	croze
crumby	crummy
crunchie	crunchy
cs	seas	sees	seize
ctene	teen
cubical	cubicle
cubit	qubit
cue	Q	queue
currant	current
curser	cursor
cygnet	signet
cymbal	symbol	tsimbl

 

D
dain	Dane	deign
dam	damn
day	dey
days	daze	deys
dean	dene
dear	deer
deem	deme
delinquence	delinquents
dense	dents
dental	dentil
dependence	dependents
depravation	deprivation
descendant	descendent
descension	dissension
descent	dissent
desert	dessert
deviance	deviants
devisor	divisor
dew	do	due
dewed	dude
dhole (a kind of dog)	dole
dhow (a kind of boat)	Dow
dhows	douse	dowse
diarist	direst
die	dye
dike	dyke
dine	dyne
dire	dyer
disburse	disperse
discous	discus
discreet	discrete
discussed	disgust
dissidence	dissidents
diver	dyvour
djinn	gin
do	doe	dough	(doh!)
doc	dock
doer	dour
does	dos	doughs	doze
done	dun
donjon	dungeon
door	dor (a kind of dung beetle)
dos (and don'ts)	dues
doubt	dout (extinguish; collective noun for cats)
dour	dower
drafts	draughts (Brit. checkers)
dray	drey
droop	drupe
dual	duel
dualist	duelist
ducked	duct
ductal	ductile
dunce	dunts
dyeing	dying

 

E
eager	eagre
earing	earring
earn	erne	urn
ease	Es (e.g. the fiddler played two open Es then a B-sharp
eave	eve
eek	eke
el	ell	L
elapse	illapse
elicit	illicit
elision	Elysion
elusive	illusive
embracer	embraceor
emerge	immerge
emersed	immersed
emersion	immersion
enrapt	enwrapped
entrance	entrants
envoi	envoy
equivalence	equivalents
Erie	eerie
erupt	irrupt
eruption	irruption
ess	S
eunuchs	UNIX
ewe	U	yew	you
ewes	U's	use	yews
ex	X
exciter	excitor (a kind of nerve)
exercise	exorcise
existence	existents (people or things that exist)
eyed	I'd
eyelet	islet
eyer	ire

 

F
facet	fascet
facial	fascial
fade	fayed (joined or fit tightly together)
faille	file	phial
fain	fane	feign
faint	feint
fair	fare
fairing	faring
fairy	ferry
faker	fakir
FAQs	fax
faro	pharoah
farrow	pharaoh
fat	phat
fate	fête
faun	fawn
faux	foe
fay	Faye	fey
fays	faze	phase
feat	feet
fees	feeze
fella	fellah
felloes	fellows
fends	fens
fennel	phenyl
fer	fir	fur
feral	ferrule	ferule
fêted	fetid
feu	few	phew
filar (of or relating to a thread)	filer
fill	Phil
fills	fils
filter	philter
filum	phylum
fin	Finn
find	fined
finish	Finnish
fireboat	firebote
firs	furs	furze
fish	phish
fisher	fissure
fizz	phiz
flacks	flax
flair	flare
flea	flee
flecks	flex
flew	flu	flue
flicks	flix
flier	flyer
flight	flyte (or flite)
Flo	floe	flow
floc	flock
flocks	phlox
floor	flor
flour	flower
foaled	fold
fold	foled
for	fore	four
forcite	foresight
foreword	foreward
form	forme
fort	forte
forth	fourth
foul	fowl
fouler	fowler
fraid	frayed
fraise	frays	phrase
franc	frank
frater	freighter
freak	phreak
frees	freeze	frieze
friar	fryer
frits	fritz
fro	froe
froes	fros (short for “afros”)	froze
fronds	frons
führer	furor
fund	funned
funds	funs
fungous	fungus
fussed	fust

 

G
G	gee
gaff	gaffe
gage	gauge
gait	gate
galipot	gallipot
galley	gally
gallop	galop
gam (a herd or school of whales)	gamb (a lion's foreleg)
gamble	gambol
gamin	gammon
gang	gangue
garb	garbe (a heraldic term)
garbel	garble
gauze	gaws [see RHD]
gay	gey (chiefly Scottish)
gays	gaze
gees	Gs	jeez
gel	jell
gene	jean
german	germen
gest	jessed	jest
ghee	gi
gibber	jibber
gibe	jibe
gild	gilled	guild
gilder	guilder
gilt	guilt
gimp	guimpe
gimpy	gympie
gin	jinn
giro	gyro
gladden	gladdon
glair	glare
gleys	glaze
gloom	glume
glossed	glost
glows	gloze
glutenous	glutinous
gnar (snarl, growl)	knar
gnarred	knarred	nard
gnaw	naw
gnawed	nod
gneiss	nice
gnow	now
gnu	knew	new
gnus	news
goaled	gold
gofer	gopher
gorce	gorse
gored	gourd
gorilla	guerrilla
grade	grayed
graff	graph
graft	graphed
grain	graine (silkworm eggs)
graip (garden fork)	grape
gram	graham
grate	great
grater	greater
gray	greige
grays/greys	graze
grease	Greece
greave	grieve
griffin	griphon
grills	grilse
grip	grippe
grisly	grizzly
groan	grown
grocer	grosser
groom	grume
guarantee	guaranty
guessed	guest
guide	guyed
guile	gyle
guise	guys
gunnel	gunwale
gunnie	gunny
gym	Jim
gyve	jive

 

H
haaf	half
hade	hayed
haik	hike
hail	hale
hair	hare
hairier	harrier
hairy	harry
hall	haul
halve	have
halves	haves
halving	having
handsome	hansom
hangar	hanger
Harold	herald
hart	heart
haughty	hottie
hauler	holler
hawk	hock
haws	hawse
hay	heigh	hey
hays	haze	heys
heal	heel	he'll
healing	heeling
hear	here	heer
heard	herd
heaume	holm	home
he'd	heed
heigh	hi	hie	high
height	hight
he'll	hill
herl	hurl
heroin	heroine
hertz	hurts
heterogenous	heterogynous
heteronomous	heteronymous
hew	hue	Hugh
hic	hick
hide	hied
higher	hire
him	hymn
hippie	hippy
hiram	hire 'em
ho	hoe	(haut)
hoar	whore
hoard	horde	whored
hoarse	horse
hoary	hori	whorey
hoes	hose	hos
hold	holed	(e.g. "the bandits holed up after the hold up")
hole	whole
holey	holy	wholly
hollo	hollow
holm	home
hooey	hui (in Hawaii, a club or association)
hoop	whoop
horsed	horst
hostel	hostile
hour(s)	our(s)
houseboat	housebote
humeral (relating to the shoulders)	humoral (relating to the bodily fluids)
humerus	humorous
hurley	hurly

 

I
ideograph	idiograph
ideographic	idiographic
idle	idol	idyl/idyll
ileac	iliac
ileum	ilium
immanent	imminent
impassable	impassible (incapable of suffering or feeling pain)
impatience	impatiens
impressed	imprest
in	inn
inc	ink
incidence	incidents
independence	independents
indict	indite
indigence	indigents
indiscreet	indiscrete
influence	influents
innocence	innocents
inns	ins
instance	instants
intense	intents
intension	intention
intercession	intersession
intern	inturn
interpellate	interpolate
invade	inveighed
its	it's
izard (a goat-like antelope)	izzard (the letter 'z.')

 

J
jam	jamb
jewel	joule
jibe	gibe
jinks	jinx
jo	joe
Juan	wan

 

K
keno	kino
kill	kiln
kissed	kist
knag	nag
knap	nap	nappe
knave	nave
knead	kneed	need
knee	nee
kneel	neal
knell	Nell
knicker (a kind of toy marble)	nicker
knickers	nickers
knight	night
knit	nit
knob	nob
knobble	nobble
knock	nock
knot	naught	not
knotty	naughty
know	no	Noh
knows	noes	nose

 

L
laager	lager	logger
lac	lack
laches	latches
lacks	lax
lade	laid	layed
lain	lane
lam	lamb
lama	llama
laps	lapse
lase	lays	laze	leis
laser	lazar
lay	lei	ley
lea	lee	li (a chinese unit of distance)
leach	leech
lead	led
lead	lied -- type of German song
leader	lieder
leaf	lief
leak	leek
lean	lien
leant	lent
leas	lees -- dregs
leased	least
leat	leet
lends	lens
less	loess
lessen	lesson
levee	levy
liable	libel
liar	lyre
lichen	liken
licker	liquor
lickerish (greedy)	licorice
lie	lye
lieu	loo	Lou
lightening	lightning
limb	limn
lime	lyme
limey	limy (like lime)
links	lynx
literal	littoral
lo	low
load	lode	lowed
loan	lone
loch	lock
lochs	locks	lox
lone	loan
loon	lune -- a crescent shape
loop	loupe
loos	lose
loot	lute
lorry	lory
loure	lure
lumbar	lumber

 

M
ma	maw
mach	mock
mackle	macle
macs	max
made	maid
maggot	magot
mail	male
main	Maine	mane
maize	mase	Mays	maze
mall	maul	moll
manakin (a kind of bird)	manikin -- a very small person	mannequin
mandrel / mandril	mandrill
manila	manilla (early form of currency in West Africa)
manner	manor
mantel	mantle
maqui	maquis
marc -- course brandy	mark	marque
mare	mayor
marlin	marline (a type of rope)
marquee	marquis
marri (a type of Eucalyptus tree)	marry	(merry)
marshal	martial
marten (a weasel-like animal)	martin (a type of bird)
maser	mazer (a hardwood drinking bowl)
mask	masque
massed	mast
mat	Matt	matte
matey	matey
me	mee (in Malaysia, noodles)	mi
mead	meed
mealie (in South Africa, corn)	mealy
mean	mesne (a legal term meaning "intermediate")	mien
meat	meet	mete
meatier	meteor
medal	meddle
meddler	medlar (a type of small tree)
medic	medick
mere	mir
metal	mettle
mewl	mule
mews	muse
mho (the reciprocal of an ohm)	mow
micks	mix
middy	midi
might	mite
mil -- one-thousandth of an inch	mill
millenary	millinery
mince	mints
mind	mined
miner	minor
minion	minyan
minks	minx
missal	missel	missile
missed	mist
misses	Mrs.
moan	mown
moat	mote
mode	mowed
mohel	moil
moi	moire
moo	moue
mood	mooed
moose	mousse
mordant	mordent
morn	morne ("A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting." dictionary.com)	mourn
morning	mourning
mossie (the Cape Sparrow)	mossy
much	mutch
mucous (adj.)	mucus (noun)
murrain	murrhine
murre (a kind of bird)	myrrh
muscle	mussel
mussed	must
mustard	mustered

 

N
naval	navel
nay	né (a man's original name)	née	neigh
nays	naze	neighs
neap	neep
neck	nek (a mountain pass)
nicks	nix
none	nun

 

O
O	oh	owe
oak	oke (a turkish weight)
oar	o'er	or	ore
ocellate	oscillate
ode	owed
offed	oft
oleo	olio
one	won
oohed	oud
oohs	ooze
oozy	Uzi
ordinance	ordnance
ottar	otter
overdo	overdue
overseas	oversees

 

P
P	pea	pee
pa	pah (expression of disgust; maori fort)	pas	paw
paced	paste
packed	pact
packs	pax
paddymelon (a type of vine)	pademelon (a type of wallaby)
paean	paeon (a type of metrical foot)	peon
pahs	pas	pause	paws
paid	payed
pail	pale
pain	pane
pair	pare	pear
palate	palette	pallet	pallette
pall	Paul	pawl
palmar	palmer
pan	panne
par	parr (a young salmon or trout)
parish	perish
passable	passible
passed	past
patience	patients
pauper	popper
pawed	pod
peace	piece
peak	peek	pique
peal	peel
pearl	purl	Perl
peat	Pete
pec (informal term for pectoral muscle)	peck
pedal	peddle	petal
pedaler	peddler
peer	pier
pencil	pencel	pensile
pend	penned
pendant	pendent
penitence	penitents
people	pipal (another term for bodhi tree)
per	purr
perse	purse
pervade	purveyed
peter	petre (short form of saltpeter)
petit	petty
petrel	petrol
phosphene	phosphine
pi	pie
pica	pika
picks	pix	pyx
picnic	pyknic
pidgin	pigeon
pieced	piste
pincer	pincher	pinscher
pistil	pistol
pixelated	pixilated (slightly crazy, i.e. led away by pixies)
place	plaice (a kind of fish)
plack (an ancient Scottish coin)	plaque
plain	plane
plait	plat
plait	plate
planar	planer
plantar	planter
pleas	please
pleural	plural
plots	plotz
plum	plumb
pocks	pox
pokey	poky
polar	poler	poller
pole	Pole	poll
politic	politick
pommel	pummel
pool	poule
populace	populous
pore	pour
port	Porte (the Ottoman Turkish government)
praise	prase	prays	preys
prau	prow
pray	prey
precedence	precedents
premier	premiere
presence	presents
pride	pried
pries	prise	prize
prince	prints
principal	principle
prior	pryer
profit	prophet
pros	prose
psalter	salter
psi	sai	sigh	xi
psychosis	sycosis
pupal	pupil

 

Q
quarts	quartz
quean	queen
queerist	querist
quietest	quietist
quince	quints
quintain (a kind of post in jousting)	quintan (a fever occurring every fifth day)
quitter	quittor (a type of foot disease in horses)

 

R
Ra	rah	raw
rabbet	rabbit
race	reis
rack	wrack
racket	racquet
radical	radicle
raid	rayed
raik	rake
rain(s)	reign(s)	rein(s)
raise	rays	raze
raiser	razer	razor
rancor	ranker
rap	wrap
rapped	rapt	wrapped
rapper	wrapper
ray	re
read	red	redd
read	rede	reed
reading	reeding
ready	reddie (nickname for a kind of fish)
real	reel
ream	rheme
reave	reeve
recede	reseed
receipt	reseat
reck	wreck
recks	Rex	wrecks
reek	wreak
reference	referents
reiter	righter	writer
remark	remarque
rends	wrens
repassed	repast
residence	residents
resinate	resonate
resister	resistor
respawned	respond
rest	wrest
retch	wretch
review	revue
rhea	ria
rheum	room
rheumy	roomie	roomy
rho	roe	row
rhumb	rum
rhyme	rime
riband	ribband
rick	wrick
rigger	rigor
right	rite	wright	write
righting	writing
ring	wring
ringer	wringer
riot	ryot
RISC	risk
rise	ryes
ritz	writs
road	rode	rowed
roam	Rome
roan	rone (a drainpipe from a roof)
roc	rock
roes	rose	rows
roil	royal	Roy'll
role	roll
roo	roux (cooked butter and flower)	rue (regret)
rood	rude	rued
room	rheum
roomer	rumor
roos	rues	ruse
root	route
rose	rows
rot	wrought
rote	wrote
rough	ruff
rouse	rows
rout	route
rowan	rowen
rud	rudd (a kind of fish)
rude	rued
rung	wrung
rye	wry

 

S
Saab	sob
sac	sack
sachet	sashay
sacks	sacs	sax
sail	sale
sailer	sailor
sake	saki (a kind of monkey)
saltie (a sailor or a type of crocodile)	salty
sane	seine
saner	seiner
sault	sue
saver	savor
sawed	sod
scaler	scalar
scarf	scarph
scart (to scratch or scrape)	skart (a kind of bird)
scat	skat (a kind of card game)
scene	seen
scion	sion (variant of Zion)
scissel	scissile (able to be cut)
scull	skull
seam	seem
seaman	seamen	semen
seams	seems
season	seisin
secs	sects	sex
seek	Sikh
senate	sennet	sennit (stuff for making hats)
serf	surf
serge	surge
set	sett (lair or burrow of a badger)
settler	settlor (a person who makes a settlement)
sew	so	sow
sewer	sower
sewer	suer
sewn	sone	sown
shake	sheik
shay	shea (a kind of African tree)
she	shea
shear	sheer
shears	sheers
sheas	chaise
sheave	shiv
she'll	shill
shier (shyer)	shire
sho	show
shone	shown
shot	shott
sic	sick
sics	six
side	sighed
sigher	sire
sighs	size
sign	sine	syne
Sioux	sou	sue
six	sics
slay	sleigh	sley
sleave	sleeve
sleight	slight
slew	slough	slue
sloe	slow
snoek (a kind of fish)	snook
soar	sore	sord
soared	sword
socks	sox
sol	sole	soul
sold	soled	souled
solely	soli (a plural of "solo")
some	sum
son	sun	sunn (a hemplike fiber from southern Asia)
sonny	sunny
sordid	sorted
sot	sought
sough	sow
spade	spayed
spec	speck
spits	spitz (kind of dog)
spoor	spore
staff	staph
staid	stayed
stair	stare
stake	steak
stalk	stock
stalking	stocking
statice	status
stationary	stationery
steal	steel	stele
steely	stele
step	steppe
stich	stick
stile	style
stoop	stoup
storey	story
straight	strait
subtle	suttle
subtler	sutler
succor	sucker
suede	swayed
suite	sweet
summary	summery
sundae	Sunday
sura (a chapter of the Koran)	surah (soft-twilled silk fabric)
swat	swot

 

T
T	tea	tee	ti
tacet	tacit	tasset (some kind of armor thingy)
tach	tack
tacked	tact
tacks	tax	tachs
tael	tail	tale
tahr (a goat-like animal)	tar
tailer	tailor
talk	tock
taper	tapir
tare	tear
taught	taut	tot
taupe	tope
Taurus	torus
teal	teil (a kind of tree)	til (the sesame plant)
team	teem
tear	tier
tearer	terror
teas	tease	tees
tel	tell
tends	tens
tenner	tenor
tense	tents
tenser	tensor
terce	terse
tern	terne (a lead alloy)	turn
ternary	turnery
Thai	tie
the	thee
their	there
theocracy	theocrasy
threw	through	(thru)
throe(s)	throw(s)
throne	thrown
thyme	time
tic	tick
tide	tied
tie	tye
tier (or tyer -- one who ties)	tire
tighten	titan
tighter	titer (the concentration of a solution as determined by titration)
til (the sesame plant)	till
tinnie	tinny
to	too	two
toad	toed	towed
toady	tody (a type of bird)
tocsin	toxin
toe	tow
toke	toque
told	tolled
tole	toll
ton	tonne (metric ton)	tun
tongue	tung (a type of tree)
tool	tulle
toon	tune
tor (a hill or rocky peak)	tore	torr (a unit of pressure)
tort	torte
tough	tuff
toughed	tuft
tracked	tract
trader	traitor
tray	trey
troop	troupe
trooper	trouper
trussed	trust
tucks	tux

 

U
umbels (a kind of flower clusters)	umbles (entrails of some animals)
undo	undue
unreal	unreel

 

V
V	vee
Vail	vale	veil
vain	vane	vein
valance	valence
variance	variants
vary	very
vellum	velum
versed	verst
verses	versus
vial	vile	viol
vice	vise
villain	villein (a type of feudal tenant)
viscous	viscus (singular of "viscera")
volt	volte (a movement in horseback riding)

 

W
WAC	wack	whack
wacks	WACs	whacks	wax
waddy (Australian war club)	wadi
wade	weighed
wail	wale	whale
wails	Wales / wales	whales
wain	wane	Wayne
waist	waste
waisted	wasted
wait	weight
waive	wave
waiver	waver
walk	wok
wall	waul (cry like a cat or newborn baby)
want	wont
war	wore
ward	warred
ware	wear	where
warn	worn
warrantee	warrenty
wart	wort
wary	wherry
wat (a Buddhist monastery or temple)	watt	wot
wavey (a snow goose or other wild goose)	wavy
way	weigh	whey
we	wee	whee
weak	week
weakly	weekly
weal	wheel
weald	wheeled	wield
wean	ween
weaner (a recently weaned animal)	wiener
weather	wether	whether
weaver	weever (a kind of fish)
weepie (a sentimental film, novel, etc.)	weepy
wees	whees	wheeze
weld	welled
wells	wels (a giant kind of catfish)
wen	when
were	whir
wet	whet
we've	weave
whau (a type of tree in New Zealand)	wow
which	witch
whig	wig
while	wile
whiled	wild
whin	win
whine	wine
whined	wind	wined	wynd (a very narrow street)
whirled	world
whirred	word
whist	wist
whit	wit
white	wight	wite
whither	wither
whittle	wittol (an acquiescent cuckold)
whoa	woe
whoo / hoo (sound an owl makes)	who
whoos / hoos (sounds an owl makes)	whose
why	wye	Y
whys	wise	Ys
windlass	windless
winds	wins	winze
wood	would
wop	whop
worst	wurst

 

Y
yack	yak
yap	yapp
yawn	yon
yoke	yolk
yore	your