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Confusing English Words

A amoral, immoral; based, baste; bungle, bundle;


abdicate, abrogate, arrogate, amused, bemused; Bastille, bastion; burley, burly;
derogate, delegate, delicate; anguish, languish; bat, batt; burrow, burro, borough;
abdication, addiction; annalist, analyst; bate, bait;
Abel, able, -able; annalize, analyze; bath, bathe; bus, buss;
ability, capacity; annul, annual, perennial; batted, bated, baited; bust, burst;
abjure, adjure; antagonist, protagonist; bazaar, bizarre; but, butt;
ablution, absolution; ante-, anti-; beach, beech; C
abridged, unabridged, antecedence, antecedents; beau, bow; cabal, cable;
expurgated; aphasia, amnesia; beer, bier; cache, cash;
abuse, misuse; aplomb, a plum; beet, beat; caddie, caddy;
accede, exceed; apposite, opposite; beetle, betel; calendar, calender,
accelerate, exhilarate; appraise, apprise; bellow, billow; colander;
accelerator, exhilarator; appreciate, depreciate; benevolence, benediction, calk, caulk;
accidental, incidental, apprehend, comprehend; malevolence, malediction; call, caul;
accidentally, accidently; arbitrate, mediate; beneficent, beneficial; callous, callus;
acclamation, acclimation; area, aria; berry, bury; Calvary, cavalry,
acronym, anagram; ark, arc; berth, birth; cavalier;
acts, ax or axe; arrange, arraign; better, bettor; canapé, canopy;
acumen, acute, acuity; artist, artiste; biannual, biennial; candid, candied;
adapt, adept, adopt; ascension, assumption; bigamy, polygamy, monogamy; cane, Cain;
adds, ads, adz or adze; ascent, assent, accent; bigoted, biased, intolerant, cannon, canon, canyon;
adduce, deduce; ascetic, acetic; prejudiced; cant, can’t;
adhesion, cohesion, ask, ax; bisect, dissect; canter, cantor;
adherence, adherents; ass, asinine; bisk, bisque; canvas, canvass;
adjourn, adjoin; assassin, assailant assassinate, billed, build; capitol, Capitol, capital;
admission, admittance; assault, assail; bite, byte; carat, caret, carrot,
adverse, averse; assimilate, simulate; blatant, flagrant; karat;
aerie, airy, eerie or eery; assistance, assistants; blaze, blasé; careen, career;
affect, effect; assume, presume; blew, blue, bleu; caries, carries;
affinity, infinity; assure, insure; bloc, block; carol, carrel;
affluence, affluents, astrology, astronomy; blond, blonde; carton, cartoon;
influence; attendants, attendance; boar, bore, boor, Boer; casket, gasket; 0
agenda, addenda, auger, augur; boarder, border; cartridge, cartilage;
addendum; aught, ought, naught; bode, bowed; cast, caste;
aggravate, exasperate, aureole, oriole; bogey, bogy; casual, causal;
irritate, annoy; aver, avert, evert, divert; bold, bowled; catholic, Roman
agnostic, atheist, deist, aviary, apiary; bolder, boulder; Catholic;
theist; away, aweigh; boll, bowl; caudal, caudle, coddle;
aid, aide; awful, offal boors, bourse; cause, caws;
ail, ale; B boos, booz; cease, seize;
aisle, isle, I’ll; babble, bable; born, borne; -ceed, -sede, -cede;
all, awl; bad, badly, bade; bourgeois, proletariat; cede, seed;
alley, ally; bald, bawled; bow, bough; ceiling, sealing;
all ready, already; bale, bail; braid, brayed; cell, sell;
all right, all-right, alright; ball, bawl; braze, braise, brays; cellar, seller;
all together, altogether; ballet, ballot, ballad; breach, breech; cement, concrete;
allude, elude, refer; balm, bomb; bread, bred; censer, censor, censure,
allusion, illusion, delusion, band, banned; breath, breathe, breadth; sensor;
elusion; bands, banns, bans; brews, bruise; cent, scent, sent;
all ways, always; barbaric, barbarous, barbarian, bridal, bridle; cents, scents, sense,
altar, alter; barbarism; broach, brooch; cense;
alumnus, alumni, alumna, bard, barred; brochure, leaflet, pamphlet; cere, seer, sear;
alumnae; bare, bear; brood, brewed; cereal, serial;
amateur, novice, neophyte, baring, barring, bearing; brows, browse; cession, session;
tyro; baron, barren; buccal, buckle; champ, chomp;
amend, emend; baroness, barrenness; bullion, bouillon; champagne, champaign;
amiable, amicable; base, bass, bass; bump, thump;
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chance, chants; console, console; decimate, destroy, demolish; doe, dough, do;
chanty, shanty; consonance, consonants; decisive, incisive; does, does, doze;
charted, chartered; construction, destruction; decompose, discompose; done, dun;
chaste, chased; consul, council, consel; decorum, propriety; dope, dupe;
cheap, cheep; contemptible, contemptuous; decree, degree; douse, dowse;
check, Czech; continuous, continual; deduce, deduct; dove, dove;
cheek, chic, sheik; continuance, continuation; defer, differ; draft, draught;
chew, eschew; controversial, contentious; deference, difference; droop, drupe;
chews, choose, chose; converge, diverge; defective, deficient; dual, duel;
chilly, chile [also chili or conversion, diversion; definite, definitive; ducked, duct;
chilli]; convince, persuade; defensive, defensible; dye, die;
choler, collar; convulsion, revulsion; defuse, diffuse; dyeing, dying;
choleric, caloric; coo, coup; deign, Dane; dynamic, dynamite;
choral, chorale, coral; coolly, coolie or cooly, coulee; delegate, relegate; E
circumscribed, circumspect; coop, coupe or coupé; denounce, renounce; earn, urn;
cops, copse; dense, dents; earthly, earthy;
cite, site, sight; cord, chord, cored; deposition, disposition; eave, eve;
cinque, sink, sync.; core, corps, corpse; depravation, deprivation; either, ether;
clack, claque; corespondent, correspondent; depraved, deprived; effective, efficient,
clamber, clamor, clamour; cornet, coronet; deprecate, depreciate; effectual;
classic, classical; corporal, corporeal, corpulent; descendant, descendent; egoism, egotism;
claws, clause; council, counsel; descent, dissent; egoist, egotist;
clever, cleaver; councilor, counselor; desirable, desirous; egress, ingress;
clew, clue; courier, currier; desperate, disparate, desperado; elegy, eulogy;
click, clique, cliche; covet, covert, overt; elicit, illicit, licit;
climacteric, climactic, coward, cowered; dessert, desert, desert; eligible, legible;
climatic; crape, crepe; desolate, dissolute; elude, delude, deluge;
climb, clime; crawl, trawl; detract, distract; elusive, delusive,
clinch, clench; creak, creek; device, devise; illusive;
closure, cloture, cloister; crease, creese [also crease or deviser, devisor, divisor; emanate, eminent,
coax, cokes; kris]; dew, do, due; imminent, immanent,
coal, cole, kohl; credible, creditable, credulous, diagnosis, prognosis; immediate;
coarse, course; diced, minced; emerge, emerse,
coco, cocoa;           credulity; dictionary, glossary, thesaurus; immerge;
collision, collusion; crevice, crevasse; dies, dice; emeritus, merit,
colonel, kernel; crews, cruise; diffident, dissident; meritorious;
command, commend; criterion, criteria; differentiate, distinguish; emersion, immersion;
commence, comments, croak, crock; digest, digest; emigrate, immigrate;
commerce; crocodile, alligator; digress, regress; empathy, sympathy;
common, vulgar; croquet, croquette, crochet; diminish, minimize; ensure, insure;
communicate, commute; cubical, cubicle; dine, dyne; envelop, envelope;
complacent, complaisant; cue, queue; dingy, dinghy; envy, covet, desire;
complement, compliment; cure, curé; dire, dyer; epidemic, endemic,
complete, finished; cursed, cursed; direct, erect; pandemic;
complex, compound; currant, current; disapprove, disprove; epigram, epigraph;
comprehensible, customer, costumer; disaster, holocaust, tragedy; epitaph, epithet;
comprehensive; cyclone, hurricane, tornado; disburse, disperse; equable, equitable;
compute, commute; cygnet, signet; discomfort, discomfit, erasable, irascible;
concert, consort; cymbal, symbol; disconcert; errant, arrant;
conservation, conservative, Cyprus, cypress; discreet, discrete; erratum, errata;
Conservative, conserve; D discuss, discus, cuss; erotic, exotic;
condone, condom, daffynition, fictionary; disinterested, uninterested; eruption, irruption;
condominium; dam, damn; dispassionate, unimpassioned; essay, assay;
confidant, confidante, dammed, damned; displace, misplace; etymology, entomology;
confident; dangle, tangle; disposal, disposition;
confirm, conform; days, daze; dissidence, dissidents; euphemism,
congregation, conjugation; deadly, deathly; distinct, distinctive; dysphemism,
connotation, denotation; debar, disbar; distracted, distrait, distraught; cacophemism;
connote, denote; decadence, decadents; divers, diverse; evoke, invoke;
conscience, conscious, decease, disease; divorce, divorcé, divorcee, evolution, revolution;
conscientious; deceased, diseased; divulge, disclose; evolve, devolve;
consecutive, successive; decent, descent, dissent; doc, dock; exalt, exult;
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exceed, excel; flounder, founder; greave, grieve; inane, insane;
exceptional, exceptionable; flour, flower; grill, grille; incidence, incidents;
exhaustive, exhausting, flout, flaunt; grip, grippe; incite, insight;
          exhaustible; flow, floe, flux; grisly, grizzly; incoherent, inchoate;
expand, expend; foul, fowl; groan, grown; incredible, incredulous;
expanse, expense; for, fore, four; guarantee, guaranty; indeterminable,
expedience, expedients; foreword, forward; guest, guessed, quest; indeterminate;
expletive, explicative, formally, formerly; guise, guys; indigenous, indigent;
epithet; fort, forte; H indignant, indigent,
explosion, implosion; forth, fourth; hail, hale; indignity;
expose, esposé; fortuitous, fortunate; halve, have; indict, indite;
expostulate, postulate; foul, fowl; handsome, hansom; inequity, iniquity;
extant, extent; fraise, frays, phrase; hangar, hanger; inert, insert;
extemporaneous, fraught, wrought; hanged, hung; infectious, contagious;
impromptu; friar, fryer; hardy, hearty; infidel, infidelity;
extort, export; frieze, freeze; hare, hair; informer, informant;
extract, excerpt; frustrate, fluster; hart, heart; ingenious, ingenuous;
extraneous, intrinsic; fuddle, muddle; haul, hall; insidious, invidious;
exude, exclude; furry, fury; haven, heaven; insoluble, insolvable,
eyelet, islet; G hay, hey; insolvent;
F gaff, gaffe; hays, haze; inspiration, expiration;
fable, foible; gage, gauge; heal, heel; instance, instants;
façade, veneer; gain, gainly; healthful, healthy; instigate, institute;
facet, faucet; gait, gate; heard, herd; integration,
facetious, fictitious; gall, Gaul; hearsay, heresy; segregation;
facilitate, felicitate; galley, gallery; heroin, heroine; intelligible, intelligent,
fain, feign; gamble, gambol; hertz, hurts; intellectual;
faint, feint; gambling, gamboling; hi, hie, high; intense, intents;
faker, fakir; gamut, gambit; him, hymn; intension, intention;
fare, fair; gantlet, gauntlet; historic, historical; interment, internment;
farm, pharm; gaol, jail; ho, hoe; intermural, intramural;
farther, further; gap, gape; hoar, hoer, whore; intern or interne, inter;
faun, fawn; gargle, gargoyle; hoard, horde, whored; international,
faze, phase, phrase; gays, gaze; hoarse, horse; intranational;
feet, feat, fete; geek, freak; hole, whole, holistic; interstate, intrastate;
ferment, foment; gel, jell; holy, holey, wholly, holly; intimate, intimate,
ferry, fairy; generic, genetic; homonyms, homophones, imitate;
ferrule, ferule; genes, jeans; homographs, heteronyms; invade, inveighed;
fete, fate; genius, genus, genre; homophobia, invoke, revoke;
feted, fated; gentle, gentile or Gentile, homosexualphobia; irreverent, irrelevant;
fetid, feted; genteel; honorarium, stipend; irruption, eruption;
few, phew; gesture, jester; hoop, whoop; J
fewer, less; ghastly, ghostly; hose, hose; jam, jamb or jambe;
final, finally, finale, finely; gibe, jibe, jive; hostel, hostile; jibe, gibe;
find, fined; gild, guild; hue, hew; jinks, jinx;
fineness, fnesse; gilt, guilt; humerus, humorous; joust, just;
fir, fur; gist, jest; hurdle, hurtle; junction, juncture;
fish, fishes; glance, glimpse; hyperbola, hyperbole; judicial, judicious;
fisher, fissure; glutton, gluten, glut; hypercritical, hypocritical; jurist, juror;
flagrant, blatant; gobble, binge; hyperthermia, hypothermia; K
flammable, inflammable; gobbler, gobbler; I key, quay;
flight, plight; googol, google, goggle; I, aye, eye; kill, kiln;
flare, flair, flayer; gore, goer; idle, idol, idyl; knave, nave;
flea, flee; gored, gourd; ileum, ilium; knell, knoll;
flecks, flex; gorge, gouge; illegible, ineligible, eligible; knickers, nickers;
flesh, flush; gorging, gouging; impassable, impassible; knot, not;
flesh out, flush out; gorilla, guerilla; impetuous, vehement; knotty, naughty;
fleshly, fleshy; gourmand, gourmet; impinge, infringe; knit, nit;
flew, flu, flue; graduate, graduate from; imply, infer, insinuate; knock, nock;
flight, plight; graft, graphed; impostor, imposure; L
flip, flip-flop, flippant; great, grate; imprudent, impudent; lacks, lax;
flotsam, jetsam; Greece, grease; impunity, immunity; lade, laid;
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lain, lane; main, mane, Maine; nay, nee or née, neigh; penance, pennants;
lam, lamb; maize, maze; need, knead, kneed; pencil, pensile;
lame, lamé; mall, maul; negligent, negligible; pendant, pedent,
lapse, laps, Lapps, elapse, manner, manor; new, gnu, knew, nu; pennant;
relapse; mantel, mantle; news, gnus; penitence, penitents;
largest, largess, largesse; manual, Manuel; nice, gneiss; per, purr;
lascivious, licentious, lust; mare, mayor; nom de plume, pseudonym, pen percent, percentage;
last, latest; marital, martial, marshal; name; perfect, prefect;
lateral, literal; mark, marque; none, nun; perimeter, parameter;
lath, lathe; marquee, marquis; nose, knows, noes, nos; perpetrate, perpetuate;
lather, leather; marten, martin; nugget, nougat; perpetual, perpetuity;
latitude, longitude; mask, masque; O perquisite, requisite,
laudable, laudatory; massed, mast; oar, o’er, or, ore; prerequisite;
lay, lei; massive, missive; oath, minced oath; persecute, prosecute;
leach, leech; masterful, masterly; obscene, lewd; personal, personnel;
lead, lead, led; material, materiel or matériel; observance, observation; perspective,
leak, leek; mean, mien; obsolete, obsolescent, archaic, prospective, prospectus;
lean, lien; meat, meet, mete; archaism;
leased, least; medal, meddle; obstacle, impediment; perspicuous,
leeward, windward; mediate, meditate, medicate; oculist, optician, perspicacious;
lend, loan, borrow; medium, media, median; ophthalmologist, optometrist; perspiration, aspiration,
lesson, lessen; meeting, meting; ode, owed; inspiration;
let, leave; melody, medley, malady; official, officious; peruse, pursue;
levee, levy; metal, mettle; opaque, transparent; petrify, putrify, purify;
liable, libel, slander; meteor, meteorite; optimist, pessimist; petty, paltry, trivial;
liable, likely; mewl, mule; oracle, auricle; pew, pu;
liar, lyre; mews, muse, Muse; oral, verbal, aural; phenomenon,
liberal, libertarian, libertine, milestone, millstone; ordinance, ordnance; phenomena,
liberty; militate, mitigate; orient, Orient, orientate; phenomenal;
lichen, liken; millenary, millinery; osculate, oscillate, vacillate; physic, physique,
lie, lye; mince, mints; overdo, overdue; psychic;
lie, lay; miner, minor; oversight, omission; pi, pie;
lightening, lightning; minute, minuet; P pidgin, pigeon;
linage, lineage; misocapnist, capnophobia; packed, pact; pier, peer;
linear, lineal; missal, missile; packs, pax; pistil, pistol;
links, lynx; mist, missed; paid, payed; pitiful, piteous, pitiable;
liqueur, liquor; mite, might; pail, pale;
literal, littoral; moan, mown; pain, pane; pizza, piazza;
literary, literate; moat, mote, molt; pair, pairs, pare, pear; place, plaice;
litigation, mitigation; mode, mowed; pairing, paring; plain, plane;
livid, vivid; mogul, mongrel; palate, palette, pallet; plaintiff, defendant;
llama, lama; momentous, momentary; pall, pawl; plait, plate, pleat,;
lo, low; monopoly, polypoly; par, parr; plausible, feasible;
load, lode, lowed; mood, mooed; pariah, piranha; pleas, please;
loam, loan, lone; moose, mousse, mouse; parlay, parley; plight, flight, flite or
loath, loathe; moot, mute; partition, petition; flyte;
local, locale; moral, morale; passe, posse; plum, plumb;
lock, loch; morality, mortality; passed, past; pejorative, meliorative;
locks, lox; morbid, sordid; pastor, pasture; pejoration, melioration;
loom, loon, lune; more, mower; pathos, bathos; pole, poll;
loose, lose; morn, mourn; pause, paws; polish, Polish;
loot, lute; morning, mourning; pawing, pawning; polite, courteous;
lore, lower; motif, motive; peaceful, peaceable; pomace, pumice;
lucre, looter; motto, mottle; peak, peek, pique, piqué; pommel, pummel;
lumbar, lumber; mucous, mucus; peaked, peaked; populace, populous,
lung, lunge; mulched, mulcted; peal, peel; population;
luxurious, luxuriant; muscle, mussel; pealing, peeling; popular, poplar;
M musical, musicale; pean or paean, peon; pore, pour, poor;
macrocosm, microcosm; mustard, mustered; pearl, purl; poring, pouring;
madam, madame; N pedal, peddle, petal; portion, potion;
magnet, magnate; nauseated, nauseous; peer, pier; practical, practicable,
mail, male; naval, navel; pelisse, police; pragmatic;
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praise, prays, preys; rational, rationale; rung, wrung; side, sighed;
pray, prey; readable, legible; rye, wry; sigher, sire;
precedence, precedents; recent, resent, resent; S simple, simplistic;
precipitate, precipitous, read, reed; sac, sack, sacque; simulate, stimulate;
precipice; real, reel; sacks, sax; sing, singe;
predicate, predicate, ream, reem; sacred, sacrosanct; sink, cinque;
predict; rebound, redound; sacrilege, sacrilegious; sit, sat, set;
prelude, preclude; recede, reseed; sail, sale; slay, sleigh;
premier, première or recitation, resuscitation; salary, celery; sleave, sleeve;
premiere; recurring, frequent; salon, saloon; sleight, slight;
prescribe, proscribe; reek, wreak; salubrious, lugubrious; sloe, slow;
presence, presents; regal, regale; sanatorium, sanitarium; slogan, motto;
presumption, presumptive, regime, regimen, regiment; sane, seine, Seine; slough, slew;
presumptuous; register, registrar; sanguine, sanguinary, slugger, sluggard;
pretend, portend, portent; reign, rein, rain; sanguineous; smear, smirch, smirk;
prevent, hinder; reigns, reins, rains; satin, sateen; smug, smudge;
preventive, preventative; required, prescribed; savant, idiot savant, idiot; so, sew, sow, sow;
pride, pried; requirement, requisition; saver, savor; soar, sore, sower;
pries, prize; reseat, receipt, recipe; scald, scold; soared, sword;
principal, principle; reserve, reserve; scalp, scalpel; sold, soled;
prier, prior; resign, re-sign; scan, scandal; solder, sodder;
profit, prophet; prophecy, resort, resort; scream, screech, shriek, squeal; sole, soul;
prophesy; respectable, respectful; scrip, script; solid, stolid;
proletarian, plebian; respectfully, respectively, scuff, scruff; solitary, solitaire;
proportion, apportion; respectably; scull, skull; some, sum;
prosperity, posterity; restful, restive; sculptor, sculpture; sometime, some time,
protege, prodigy; restive, restless, restful; seam, seem; sometimes;
prodigal, progeny; résumé, synopsis, summary; seamen, semen; son, sun;
pros, prose; retch, wretch; seamed, seemed; soot, suit;
pendant, pedent; reticent, taciturn; sear, seer, seer, sere; sore, sower, soar;
prosthesis, prostration; reverence, reference; seas, sees, seize, siege, cease; spacious, specious;
prosthetic, prostration; review, revue; seasonable, seasonal; speak, speech;
prostrate, prostate; revile, revel; secret, secrete; special, especial,
protein, protean; revelry, reveille; sects, sex; spacial;
prude, prudent; rheum, room; seen, scene; specie, species;
pundit, pundent, pedant, Rhodes, roads; see, sea; specter, scepter;
prodigy; rhumb, rum; sense, scents, cents; steno, stereo;
purl, pearl; rhyme, rime; senses, census; splatter, splutter;
puttee, putty; rich, wealthy, affluent; sensitive, sensuous, sensual; squib, squid;
puzzle, perplex, bewilder; rigger, rigor; septic, skeptic, styptic; stable, staple;
Q right, rite, write, wright; serf, surf; staid, stayed;
quail, quail; ring, wring; seraph, serif; stair, stare;
quarts, quartz; ringer, wringer; session, cession; stake, steak;
query, question, quest, risky, risque or risqué; setaceous, cetaceous; stalactite, stalagmite,
inqiry; road, rode, rowed; sever, severe; stalacto-stalagmite,
R roam, Rome; sewage, sewerage; stalemate;
rabbet, rabbit; roar, rower; sewer, sewer, sower, suer; stamp, stomp;
rabble, rubble, rubbish; robber, thief, burglar; sexton, sextant; stanch, staunch;
race, race; roc, rock; shall, will; stationary, stationery;
rack, wrack; roe, row, row; shear, sheer; statue, stature, statute;
racket, racquet; roil [rile], royal; sheath, sheathe; steal, steel;
rail, rail, rail; roll, role; shelf, shelve; steely, stele;
ravage, ravish; rood, rude, rued; shoe, shoo; stentorian, stertorous;
raise, rear, rise, raze, rays; roomer, rumor; shone, shown; step, steppe;
raise, rear; root, route, en route, rout; shoot, chute; sticks, Styx;
raised, razed; rose, rosé, rows, roes, rouse; shudder, shutter; stink, stint;
rake, rake; roster, rostrum; sic, sick; straight, strait;
rap, wrap; rot, wrought; sight, spectacle; straightened,
rapt, rapped, wrapped; rote, wrote; sighs, size; straitened;
rappel, repel; ruble, rubble; signature, autograph; strip, stripe;
rapper, wrapper; ruff, rough; sign, sine; strut, strut;
rare, scarce; signet, cygnet; style, stile;
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subsequent, consequent; tracked, tract; weave, we’ve;
swayed, suede; trader, traitor; weed, we’d;
symbol, cymbal; transience, transients; weld, welled;
suit, suite, sweet; translate, transliterate; wench, winch, wince;
summary, summery; translucent, transparent; wet, whet;
Sunday, sundae; transsexual, transvestite; whale, whale, wail;
superintendence, travel, travail; wheal, wheel;
superintendents; tray, trey; while, wile;
succor, sucker; trident, strident; whine, wine;
supernatural, unnatural; troop, troupe; whirl, whorl;
supposedly, presumably; trooper, trouper; whither, wither;
suburb, superb; trustee, trusty; who’s, whose;
suet, soot; turgid, tubid; whoa, woe;
surf, serf tutor, Tudor; whole, hole;
surge, serge; typography, topography; wiggle, wriggle;
surmise, premise; U wilt, welt;
suspicion, suspect; umbrella, parasol, sombrero; wind, wind, wined;
swath, swathe; unexceptionable, worst, wurst;
succinct, concise; unexceptional; wreak, wreck, ;
T uninhibited, uninhabited; Y
tack, tact; unique; yoke, joke, yolk;
tail, tale; university, college; you, ewe, yew;
talents, talons; urban, urbane; you’re, your, yore;
taper, tapir; use, yews, ewes; yule, you’ll
tare, tear; utter, udder;
tart, tart; unwanted, unwonted;
tartar, Tartar; V
taught, taut, taunt; vain, vane, vein;
tax, tacks; vale, vail, veil;
team, teem; valet, valley;
tear, tear, tier, tire; vassal, vessel;
tease, teas, tees; venal, venial, vernal;
temerity, timidity, timorous;venue, veneer;
Venus, venous, venomous;
tenant, tenet; veracious, voracious;
tenor, tenure; veracity, voracity;
tense, tents, tens; verses, versus;
tepid, torpid; vertex, vortex;
tern, turn; vial, vile;
than, then; vice, vise;
thong, throng; villain, villein;
thrash, thresh; visa, vista;
threw, through, thru; victual, virtual;
triumphal, triumphant; vindictive, vindication;
throw, throe; vocation, avocation;
throws, throes; volt, vault;
thyme, time; W
tick, tic; wade, weighed;
timber, timbre; wafer, waver;
tinge, twinge; wait, weight;
tire, Tyre, tier, tier; want, wont, won’t;
toad, toed, towed; war, wore;
toe, tow; ware, wear, were, where;
told, tolled; wares, wears;
ton, tun; wary, weary;
tonic, tunic; wave, waive;
tool, tulle; waver, waiver;
tort, torte; way, weigh, whey;
tortoise, turtle; wax, wane;
torturous, tortuous; wax, whacts;
touchy, touche; we, wee;
tout, toot; weal, we’ll;
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