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Words that sound the same

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SpinDriftCoastal Sat 18-Jul-26 16:38:29

rose
rows

BoggledMind Sat 25-Jul-26 16:13:29

Possibly cheating a bit but here's a musical example using two bands

Birds - Byrds

bonbons01 Fri 24-Jul-26 00:42:28

Sore and soar

bonbons01 Fri 24-Jul-26 00:40:22

Aye and eye
Steal anf steet
Real and reel
Ale and ail
Bye and buy.
Turn and tern
Flew and flue

Skynnylynny Thu 23-Jul-26 22:20:17

Moor, more
Tore, tour, tor

Skynnylynny Thu 23-Jul-26 22:18:22

For, fore, four.

Skynnylynny Thu 23-Jul-26 22:17:24

Key, quay
Buy, bye, by
Maid, made
For, four.

Mollygo Thu 23-Jul-26 22:10:52

Missed mist

BoggledMind Thu 23-Jul-26 22:07:31

Law - lore
Paw - pore - pour - poor
Saw - sore - soar
Took - tuck

MollyNew Wed 22-Jul-26 20:46:56

Which and witch

Heal and heel

bonbons01 Wed 22-Jul-26 18:06:51

Hay and hey
Need, knead and kneed
Shear and sheer

crazyH Wed 22-Jul-26 12:41:42

We should have gone alphabetically 😂

Pork and Poke

bonbons01 Wed 22-Jul-26 09:23:20

Dough and doh
Sow and sew
Peak, peek and pique
Swat and swot
Pause and paws

Sarnia Wed 22-Jul-26 07:53:52

Where-wear
Vain-vane
Trust=trussed
Serial-cereal
Please-pleas
Lone-loan
Jam-jamb

bonbons01 Wed 22-Jul-26 01:13:37

Weather and whether

bonbons01 Wed 22-Jul-26 00:44:08

And:
Tort and torte

bonbons01 Wed 22-Jul-26 00:42:36

Taught and taut

bonbons01 Wed 22-Jul-26 00:31:12

Wheel and weal

Grandma70s Tue 21-Jul-26 22:40:00

Cressida

Born - borne
Rough -ruff
Loch - lock
Gate - gait
Band = banned
Lent - leant

Loch and lock don’t sound the same. The final sound ch is quite different from ck.

Suki70 Tue 21-Jul-26 22:22:55

Curb and kerb

Mollygo Tue 21-Jul-26 22:16:52

Rude, rood and rued

MollyNew Tue 21-Jul-26 20:43:10

Rode and rowed

MollyNew Tue 21-Jul-26 20:40:04

Bar and baa

Sarnia Tue 21-Jul-26 16:20:40

Flu-Flew
Shoo-Shoe
Alms-Arms
Cruise-Crews
Facts-Fax
Reign=Rain

bonbons01 Tue 21-Jul-26 13:53:28

Course and coarse

bonbons01 Tue 21-Jul-26 13:50:25

Vane, vain and vein