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words that sound the same but have different spellings

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Jillius | 10:48 Sat 22nd Sep 2007 | Word Origins
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Hair, hare and heir are three words that sound the same but have different spellings.
Are there any words that have more than 3 different spellings but sound the same ?
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In both 'hair' and 'hare' the 'h' is pronounced, whereas in 'heir' it is not...sounding the same as 'air'. Flu, flue and flew as well as sew, so and sow are genuine threefold homophones. Pause, paws, pores and pours represent a fourfold situation...depending, that is, on what specific dialect is being spoken!
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Jillius
You can indulge yourself to you heart's content here
http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html
there's right, rite, wright and write.
I had a quick look through the link and it appears to be American. In the example Barry, berry and bury I pronounce them each differently

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Thanks everyone !
4 for fore four
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4 isn't a spelling and if it was it would be spelt four which is on your list.
to, two, and too

P.S. They are called homphones.
I mean homophones! Sorry.
Sale and Sail
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There are plenty of three and two words, it was just the four words that I was interested in like Right, rite, write and wright from Corbyloon and Pause, paws, pores and pours from Quizmonster.
Thanks, anyway !
sees, seas, seize and, erm, cease?
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Nice one Factor30 but I think the pronounciation is different with cease as with the others they sound to end with a z but with cease it's an s ! Though I suppose that maybe depends on where you are from. Still a good one though.........thanks
peak, peek, pique, peke
if you can have doh! (as in Homer Simpson) dough and doe (a deer)

Can you then have plurals dohs, doughs, does, and then doze?

And if re (the legal sense) and ray are considered homophones can you have res, rays, raise and raze (and Ray's?)

Clutching at straws?
bye, by, buy and bi-?
paw poor pour and pore

right rite wright and write

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