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What are fifty examples of homonyms?

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)

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