Homophones & Commonly Confused Words Flashcards

Homophones & Commonly Confused Words flashcards — the free 30

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their / there / they're

belongs to them / a place / they are

your / you're

belongs to you / you are

its / it's

belongs to it / it is

to / too / two

toward / also or excessively / the number 2

whose / who's

belongs to whom / who is

affect / effect

affect changes something / an effect is the result

accept / except

to take or agree to / leaving out

than / then

used to compare / next in time

lose / loose

to misplace or be beaten / not tight

quiet / quite / quit

silent / fairly or completely / to stop

weather / whether

rain, sun and wind / if

where / wear / ware

a place / to have clothes on / goods for sale, as in hardware

hear / here

with your ears / this place

brake / break

stops a bike / to snap, or a rest

principal / principle

head of a school, or main / a rule or belief

stationary / stationery

not moving / paper and pens

complement / compliment

completes something / kind words

desert / dessert

DEZ-ert = dry sandy land / di-ZERT = sweet food after a meal; only the VERB desert sounds like dessert

capital / capitol

main city, or a big letter / a legislature building

peace / piece

calm and quiet / a part of something

plain / plane

simple, or flat land / an aircraft or a flat surface

right / write / rite

correct or a direction / to put words down / a ceremony

bare / bear

uncovered / the animal, or to carry

board / bored

a flat plank / not interested

cell / sell

a small room or unit / to trade for money

cent / scent / sent

a coin / a smell / past of send

coarse / course

rough to touch / a class, or a route

council / counsel

a group that meets / advice, or to advise

dew / do / due

morning moisture / to act / owed or expected — all three match in US speech; UK dew and due are DYOO

die / dye

to stop living / to colour cloth

Homophones & Commonly Confused Words flashcards — questions people ask

How many cards are in the Homophones & Commonly Confused Words flashcard deck?

The Homophones & Commonly Confused Words deck on PuzzlePage has 150 cards. The first 30 are free to play and free to download with no account; the remaining 120 unlock for $2.99 as a one-time payment, or with the $11.99-a-month Study Pack that covers every deck on the site.

What is on the homophones & commonly confused words flashcards?

Homophone sets and commonly confused word pairs, from their and there to affect and effect, each card giving a short plain distinction for every word in the set. Cards look like this: their / there / they're → belongs to them / a place / they are; your / you're → belongs to you / you are. The deck is written for 3–8 and filed under english & reading.

Can I study homophones & commonly confused words flashcards online for free?

Yes. The first 30 cards of the Homophones & Commonly Confused Words deck play free in any web browser at puzzlepage.app, with no account, no app and no card details. It works on a phone, tablet, Chromebook, laptop or classroom projector. Practice mode flips through the cards with nothing scored; quiz mode makes you answer each card before it flips, times the run and scores it.

Are the homophones & commonly confused words flashcards accurate?

Every card in the Homophones & Commonly Confused Words deck was read and fact-checked by a subject-matter specialist before it went on sale, as was every other card on PuzzlePage — 5,420 cards across 30 decks. The audit found and fixed real defects, and one deck was withdrawn from sale entirely rather than shipped with a known problem. That is the difference from a user-generated flashcard site, where the cards are whatever a stranger typed and nobody is accountable for them.

Can I print the homophones & commonly confused words flashcards?

Yes. The Homophones & Commonly Confused Words cards are available as a printable double-sided PDF to cut up, as well as playable in the browser. The first 30 cards are free to download; the full 150-card printable is included in the $11.99-a-month Study Pack.

How should I use the Homophones & Commonly Confused Words deck to revise?

Start in practice mode and go through the Homophones & Commonly Confused Words deck once without scoring, to find out which cards you already know — the deck is dealt in a different order every time you open it, so you are recalling the card rather than its position. Then switch to quiz mode, which times and scores the run and lets you re-run only the cards you missed. Use the "flip deck" control to swap which side is the question: recognising an answer is much easier than producing one, so a deck you find easy one way round is usually the harder and more useful drill the other way. Two or three short sessions across a week beat one long one, which is the whole reason flashcards work.

What grade level are the homophones & commonly confused words flashcards for?

The Homophones & Commonly Confused Words deck is written for 3–8. Because the cards are plain term-and-answer pairs, they are also used outside that band — by adults revising english & reading, and by teachers running them as a whole-class starter on a projector.