English Words That Sound Alike
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Author's Game Description
Clyde, Francine and Abdul are trying to learn some English words but they all sound the same. Can you help them out!
Category: Linguistics Games
Created by RonaldDerGrosse, 14 May, 2007
Tags: english, homonyms, homophones, Linguistics, Vocabulary, Word
10 ratingsPlayed 365 times | 5 Fav's
silfurkex 7 months ago
slinkyplinky 1 year ago
It's difficult to read the words with the photograph behind them. Make picture lighter or change.
RonaldDerGrosse 2 years ago
If you mean "tear", the difference is in the pronunciation, such as, "tear" sounds like "tare" like in air (to rip) and "tier" like in beer (crying). The English language has many of these types of words: so, sew, sow. All of these sound alike, but the third one can be pronounced differently and mean the "pig". This makes English difficult, but English doesn't have masculine, feminine and neuter endings for adjectives to accommodate the noun.
GoldenGhost 2 years ago
Two words are written exactly the same. You should remove one of them.
| Highscores — English Words That Sound Alike | Place 11 - 20 | |||
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| Player Name | Score | Time | Date of Play | |
| 11 | doo-wop | 100% | 2:32.1 min. | 4 May, 2008 |
| 12 | Kathy | 100% | 2:33.1 min. | 15 May, 2007 |
| 13 | ronaldoxi | 100% | 2:40.9 min. | 31 May, 2007 |
| 14 | FS | 100% | 2:56.8 min. | 31 Mar, 2009 |
| 15 | Rip | 100% | 3:22.3 min. | 15 May, 2007 |
| 16 | RonaldDerGrosse | 100% | 3:34.4 min. | 14 May, 2007 |
| 17 | Lorcan | 100% | 3:48.2 min. | 25 May, 2008 |
| 18 | belindakay | 100% | 3:48.5 min. | 18 May, 2007 |
| 19 | Jen-Jen | 98% | 3:53.6 min. | 27 Jan, 2008 |
| 20 | Rufsa | 98% | 5:28.3 min. | 6 May, 2008 |
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Obviously the difference is in the pronunciation... but these are just written down, so to all intents and purposes there is no difference between 'tear' from crying and 'tear' as in to rip. If the word is contextless and only in the written format you can't tell the difference.