Fifty Examples of Homonyms:
1. Air (the atmosphere) / Air (to broadcast)
2. Allowed (permitted) / Aloud (out loud)
3. Bare (uncovered) / Bear (an animal)
4. Base (bottom) / Base (low or immoral)
5. Bat (a nocturnal animal) / Bat (a piece of sports equipment)
6. Bated (holding one's breath) / Bait (to lure)
7. Be (to exist) / Bee (an insect)
8. Bear (to carry) / Bare (uncovered)
9. Break (to separate) / Break (a pause)
10. Buy (to purchase) / By (near)
11. Can (a metal container) / Can (to be able)
12. Capital (a city) / Capitol (a building)
13. Cause (a reason) / Cause (to make happen)
14. Cell (a small room) / Sell (to exchange for money)
15. Cereal (breakfast food) / Serial (happening in sequence)
16. Check (to examine) / Cheque (a written order to pay money)
17. Close (near) / Close (to shut)
18. Course (a path) / Course (a series of lessons)
19. Desert (a dry region) / Dessert (a sweet course)
20. Die (to cease living) / Dye (to color)
21. Do (to perform) / Due (owed)
22. Fair (just) / Fare (the price of travel)
23. Flour (ground wheat) / Flower (a blossom)
24. For (because) / Four (the number 4)
25. Gait (a way of walking) / Gate (an entrance)
26. Hear (to listen) / Here (in this place)
27. Heal (to make healthy) / Heel (the back of the foot)
28. Hi (a greeting) / High (above)
29. Hole (an opening) / Whole (complete)
30. Hour (a period of time) / Our (belonging to us)
31. I (myself) / Eye (an organ of sight)
32. Know (to be aware) / No (the opposite of yes)
33. Lead (a heavy metal) / Lead (to guide)
34. Lessen (to decrease) / Lesson (a teaching)
35. Mail (letters) / Male (masculine)
36. Mean (unkind) / Mean (to signify)
37. Meet (to come together) / Meat (animal flesh)
38. None (not any) / Nun (a woman in a religious order)
39. Pair (two things) / Pear (a fruit)
40. Peace (tranquility) / Piece (a part)
41. Plain (simple) / Plane (an aircraft)
42. Pray (to beseech) / Prey (a victim)
43. Principal (head of a school) / Principle (a rule)
44. Right (correct) / Write (to put words on paper)
45. See (to perceive) / Sea (a large body of water)
46. Some (a few) / Sum (the total)
47. Stair (a step) / Stare (to look fixedly)
48. Tail (the end of an animal) / Tale (a story)
49. Than (used in comparisons) / Then (at that time)
50. Their (belonging to them) / There (in that place) / They're (they are)