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Homophones

523 sets of common English words that sound the same in a standard American or British pronunciation, from the homophone lists in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026) checked against the words' transcriptions, and the pairs people search most.

Homophone pairs people search

gray vs grey49,500
principal vs principle49,500
it's vs its49,500
complement vs compliment40,500
capital vs capitol33,100
weather vs whether27,100
discreet vs discrete960 B
their vs there18,100
peak vs peek18,100
stationary vs stationery14,800
passed vs past14,800
through vs thru12,100
gage vs gauge9,900
aid vs aide9,900
complementary vs complimentary9,900
council vs counsel9,900
cue vs queue9,900
bare vs bear9,900
light vs lite9,900
who's vs whose320

Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO; a figure marked B: Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, where Google reports none. The average month from September 2025 to August 2026.

Sets of common words that sound alike (523)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). A set is Wiktionary's homophone list confirmed by the transcriptions: the words share their standard pronunciation in General American or in British Received Pronunciation (so father and farther count, as they do in British English).