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Who can give me words in english that sounds the same in....?

pronunciation but have totally different meanings?

For example:

See and sea

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    they are called Homonyms: "...a homonym is one of a group of words that share the same pronunciation but have different meanings, and are usually spelled differently..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym

    piece and peace

    pole and poll

    meet and meat

    here and hear

    there and their

    here's a bunch more...http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_s...

    ...

  • 1 decade ago

    A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning:

    Write, right, and rite.

    Close and clothes.

    Their, there, and they're.

    Week and weak.

    Bye and By.

    Whole and hole.

    Carat, caret, and carrot

    Two, to, and too.

    Know and no.

    Pair and pear.

    Red and read (past tense).

    Rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise")

  • 1 decade ago

    the thing that your looking for is homonyms.

    there, their, they're

    blue, blue

    rowed, road

    band, banned

    ball, bawl

    board, bored

    borne, borne, bourne, bourn

    brake, break

    creek, creak

    die, dye

    do, due, dew

    faze, phase

    moose, mousse

    morning, mourning.

    those are just some of many.

    there are more at this site.

    http://www.taupecat.com/personal/homophones/

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Record and record

    there and their and they're

    live and live

    weather and whether

    **** and ****

    been and bean

    heal and heel

    sole and soul

    straight and strait

    can and can

    mind and mined

  • 1 decade ago

    Fare and Fair

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Peek and Peak

    Dog and Dawg

    Morn' and Mourn

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    bare-bear

    four-for

    see-sea

    they're called homophoes. Here'se a link to a whole page of them:

    http://www.bifroest.demon.co.uk/misc/homophones-li...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Hole Whole. Red Read

  • Bob
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    cue, queue

    oar, or

    pea, pee

    rex, wrecks

    witch, which

    too, to, two

    we, wee, oui

    led, lead

    sleigh, slay

    lie, lye

    die, dye

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    two =too,to

    there=their

    write me i can think of more later

    write

    bye

    carrot

    pole

    fair

    no

    one

    strahight

    close

    week

    hole

    weather

    bean

    heel

    pair

    hear

    night

    son

    lock

    hair

    road

    brake

    die

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