Sound Alike Words

A compilation of homophones, neologisms, easily confused, mistyped, misused, and misspelled words, along with a cheat sheet on Greek and Latin word cognates.

Although computer spell-checkers correct nonwords, typos, and spelling lapses, they can't be counted on to catch mistakes such as using the word "council" when the appropriate word is "counsel."

Mostly Homonyms is a new treatment of a traditional topic that is easy to read and use without sacrificing academic relevance. It is intended not only for anyone who wishes to ascertain the correct spelling and usage of a homonym, but also for people who just love words.

Get your hands on more than 350 words from the American-English language that people often confuse. Quickly search the confusing words. Easily understand the distinction between homophone words and the correct one to use. Visualize the distinction with memorable examples that also help you pronounce the words. Gain the most common and succinct definitions to help hone your understanding of words that sound alike.

Grade Level: 4-6 Making sense of multiple-meaning words. The 25 lessons in this book are designed to give students plenty of practice recognizing and using homographs and heteronyms in written and oral communication. Activities ranging from matching meanings to completing sentences work to stimulate awareness of the multiple meanings a single word can have and how pronunciation changes the meaning of like words. Example: - They tied a BOW on the present. - Robin Hood used a BOW and arrows. ​- The star came on stage to take a BOW. Exercises increase in difficulty as students progress. A list of homographs not used in the lessons is included so teachers can design their own activities.

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Do ewe no what homophones are? They're words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have completely different meanings—it's knot always easy to get it right. Based on his blog Homophones, Weakly, Bruce Worden's Homophones Visualized uses simple but clever graphics to help illustrate the differences between 100 pairs (or triplets or quadruplets) of words that sound alike. From beat and beet to flee and flea, baron and barren to golf and gulf, each spread contains a pair or group of homophones and corresponding illustrations that provide context for each word. Word lovers, educators, and kids all will delight in this witty and useful homophone guide to understanding which word is witch.