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Homophone Challenge
Homophones sound the same but spell differently. English has 2,182 entries in 1,007 IPA sets; ten sets per round, best score kept on this device.
- 2,182
- EN homophones
- 545,755
- English words
- 10
- sets per round
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Definitions from PlainSpell's homophone data. Each answer links to the full entry so you can explore usage and IPA.
The data behind this quiz
Every question is a real homophone set. Most sets are simple pairs; the largest sound-alike groups are a small minority, but they are the trickiest.
English homophone groups by size
1,007 groups by words sharing a sound; the ranking above is drawn from the right-hand tail
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What this showsTwo-word pairs (their/there) dominate; groups of three or more distinct spellings sharing one pronunciation are rare, and the hardest to keep straight.