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

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