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List of English homographs

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Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning. Homographs may be pronounced the same (homophones), or they may be pronounced differently (heteronyms, also known as heterophones).

Some homographs are nouns or adjectives when the accent is on the first syllable, and verbs when it is on the second. When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb.

Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or whose meanings have diverged to the point that present-day speakers have little historical understanding: for example, "bat". Many, though not all of these, have first syllables that evolved from Latin. Also, some words only exhibit stress alternation in certain dialects of English. For a list of homographs with different pronunciations (heteronyms) see Heteronym (linguistics).

  1. absent
  2. accent
  3. action
  4. adder
  5. address
  6. advocate
  7. affect
  8. agape
  9. alternate
  10. analyses
  11. appropriate
  12. ash
  13. attribute
  14. axes
  15. back
  16. balance
  17. ball
  18. balls
  19. bank
  20. bar
  21. bark
  22. bass
  23. bat
  24. battery
  25. bay
  26. bear
  27. bimonthly
  28. biot
  29. bone
  30. bougie
  31. bow
  32. brace
  33. brilliant
  34. buck
  35. buffalo
  36. buffet
  37. building
  38. can
  39. capital
  40. carp
  41. certain
  42. chad
  43. character
  44. change
  45. chest
  46. chile
  47. china
  48. cleave
  49. clerical
  50. clip
  51. close
  52. club
  53. colon
  54. coma
  55. combat
  56. combine
  57. commune
  58. console
  59. contact
  60. content
  61. contest
  62. contract
  63. converse
  64. convert
  65. cool
  66. con
  67. cow
  68. crane
  69. dab
  70. danish
  71. damper
  72. date
  73. dear
  74. decrease
  75. default
  76. degree
  77. deliberate
  78. demean
  79. desert
  80. die
  81. discharge
  82. discount
  83. dismiss
  84. dismount
  85. display
  86. Djibouti
  87. does
  88. doing
  89. dove
  90. down
  91. drain
  92. drawer
  93. dub
  94. duck
  95. duplicate
  96. effect
  97. elaborate
  98. engage
  99. entrance
  100. even
  101. evening
  102. excuse
  103. exploit
  104. extract
  105. fall
  106. fan
  107. fairly
  108. file
  109. finance
  110. fine
  111. firm
  112. float
  113. flush
  114. fly
  115. float
  116. foot
  117. football field
  118. funny
  119. gain
  120. gas
  121. gay
  122. Georgia
  123. go
  124. gorge
  125. grave
  126. gyro
  127. harbor
  128. hard
  129. hew
  130. hive
  131. hoe
  132. impact
  133. implant
  134. import
  135. impound
  136. inch
  137. incline
  138. inclined
  139. increase
  140. insert
  141. insult
  142. intercept
  143. interchange
  144. intestine
  145. intimate
  146. into
  147. intrigue
  148. invalid
  149. invite
  150. jam
  151. jersey
  152. just
  153. kind
  154. land
  155. landed
  156. layer
  157. lead
  158. learned
  159. leave
  160. leaves
  161. Lebanon
  162. left
  163. letter
  164. lie
  165. light
  166. lighter
  167. lit
  168. live
  169. lo
  170. lose
  171. lumber
  172. mali
  173. manifest
  174. mark
  175. mass
  176. match
  177. may
  178. mean
  179. median
  180. mind
  181. mint
  182. minute
  183. misled
  184. mode
  185. model
  186. mole
  187. moped
  188. mortar
  189. mother
  190. mould
  191. mouse
  192. murder
  193. nail
  194. note
  195. notice
  196. novel
  197. number
  198. nut
  199. obituary
  200. object
  201. objective
  202. obtuse
  203. odd
  204. offense
  205. oke
  206. one
  207. ought
  208. overcount
  209. overlay
  210. overlook
  211. palm
  212. park
  213. patient
  214. pen
  215. pencil
  216. perfect
  217. perfume
  218. permit
  219. pervert
  220. pitch
  221. pin
  222. plain
  223. plaster
  224. play
  225. polish
  226. pop
  227. portmanteau
  228. possess
  229. pound
  230. predate
  231. present
  232. pretty
  233. proceeds
  234. progress
  235. project
  236. protest
  237. puck
  238. pupil
  239. purpose
  240. putting
  241. quail
  242. quarry
  243. quarter
  244. racket
  245. rank
  246. read
  247. reading
  248. rebel
  249. recall
  250. recap
  251. recess
  252. record
  253. redress
  254. refund
  255. refuse
  256. regress
  257. reject
  258. relapse
  259. remake
  260. research
  261. resent
  262. reservation
  263. resume
  264. retake
  265. retard
  266. retract
  267. revolt
  268. right
  269. ring
  270. rock
  271. roll
  272. rose
  273. round
  274. rout
  275. row
  276. ruler
  277. saw
  278. scale
  279. scared
  280. school
  281. seal
  282. second
  283. seer
  284. separate
  285. sewer
  286. sheer
  287. short
  288. shorts
  289. show
  290. shower
  291. sign
  292. sink
  293. skied
  294. slip
  295. sow
  296. spirit
  297. spoke
  298. spring
  299. stand
  300. stone
  301. story
  302. straight
  303. subject
  304. survey
  305. suspect
  306. swede
  307. tear
  308. theory
  309. they
  310. tie
  311. toll
  312. too
  313. top
  314. train
  315. transfer
  316. transform
  317. transplant
  318. transport
  319. transpose
  320. type
  321. undercount
  322. unionized
  323. update
  324. uplift
  325. upset
  326. venery
  327. virus
  328. Washington
  329. watch
  330. wave
  331. widget
  332. wind
  333. window
  334. wound
  335. yard
  336. you

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