Confusing Word List 3

fable, foible; façade, veneer; facet, faucet; facetious, fictitious; facilitate, felicitate; fain, feign; faint, feint; faker, fakir; fare, fair; farm, pharm; farther, further; faun, fawn; faze, phase, phrase; feet, feat, fete; ferment, foment; ferry, fairy; ferrule, ferule; fete, fate; feted, fated; fetid, feted; few, phew; fewer, less; fiancé, fiancée; final, finally, finale, finely; find, fined; fineness, fnesse; finish, Finnish; fir, fur; fish, fishes; fisher, fissure; flagrant, blatant; flammable, inflammable;

flare, flair, flayer; flea, flee; flecks, flex; flesh, flush; fleshly, fleshy; flew, flu, flue; flight, plight; flip, flip-flop, flippant; flotsam, jetsam; flounder, founder; flour, flower; flout, flaunt; flow, floe, flux; foul, fowl; for, fore, four; foreword, forward; formally, formerly; fort, forte; forth, fourth; fortuitous, fortunate; foul, fowl; fraise, frays, phrase; fraught, wrought; friar, fryer; frieze, freeze; frustrate, fluster; fuddle, muddle; furry, fury

gaff, gaffe; gage, gauge; gain, gainly; gait, gate; gall, Gaul; galley, gallery; gamble, gambol; gambling, gamboling; gamut, gambit; gantlet, gauntlet; gaol, jail; gap, gape; gargle, gargoyle; gays, gaze; geek, freak; gel, jell; generic, genetic; genes, jeans; genius, genus, genre; gentle, gentile or Gentile, genteel; gesture, jester; ghastly, ghostly; gibe, jibe, jive;

gild, guild; gilt, guilt; gist, jest; glance, glimpse; glutton, gluten, glut; googol, google, goggle; gobble, binge; gobbler, gobbler; gore, goer; gored, gourd; gorilla, guerilla; gourmand, gourmet; graduate, graduate from; graft, graphed; great, grate; Greece, grease; greave, grieve; grill, grille; grip, grippe; grisly, grizzly; groan, grown; guarantee, guaranty; guest, guessed, quest; guise, guys

hail, hale; halve, have; handsome, hansom; hangar, hanger; hanged, hung; hardy, hearty; hare, hair; hart, heart; haul, hall; have, got, have got; haven, heaven; hay, hey; hays, haze; heal, heel; healthful, healthy; hear, here; heard, herd; hearsay, heresy; heroin, heroine; hertz, hurts; hi, hie, high; him, hymn; higher, hire; historic, historical;

ho, hoe; hoar, hoer, whore; hoard, horde, whored; hoarse, horse; hole, whole, holisic; holy, holey, wholly, holly; homonyms, homophones, homographs, heteronyms; homophobia, homosexualphobia; honorarium, stipend; hoop, whoop; hose, hose; hostel, hostile; hour, our; hue, hew; human, humane; humble, pride; humerus, humorous; hurdle, hurtle; hyperbola, hyperbole; hypercritical, hypocritical; hyperthermia, hypothermia

I, aye, eye; idle, idol, idyl; ileum, ilium; illegible, ineligible, eligible; immanent, imminent, immediate; immoral, immortal; impassable, impassible; impetuous, vehement; impinge, infringe; imply, infer, insinuate; impostor, imposure; imprudent, impudent; impunity, immunity; in, inn; inane, insane; incidence, incidents; incite, insight; incoherent, inchoate; incredible, incredulous; indeterminable, indeterminate; indigenous, indigent; indignant, indigent, indignity; indict, indite;

inequity, iniquity; inert, insert; infidel, infidelity; infectious, contagious; informer, informant; ingenious, ingenuous; innocence, innocents; insidious, invidious; inspire, expire, aspire; inspiration, expiration; insoluble, insolvable, insolvent; instance, instants; instigate, institute; integration, segregation; intelligible, intelligent, intellectual; intense, intents; intension, intention; interment, internment; intermural, intramural; intern or interne, inter; international, intranational; interstate, intrastate; intimate, intimate, imitate; invade, inveighed; invoke, revoke; iron, ironic; irreverent, irrelevant; irruption, eruption; its, it’s

jam, jamb or jambe; jibe, gibe; jinks, jinx; joust, just; junction, juncture; judicial, judicious; jurist, juror K key, quay; kill, kiln; knave, nave; knell, knoll; knickers, nickers; knot, not; knotty, naughty; knit, nit; knock, nock; know, no L laboratory, lavatory; lacks, lax; lade, laid; lain, lane; lam, lamb; lame, lamé; lapse, laps, Lapps, elapse, relapse; largest, largess, largesse; lascivious, licentious, lust; last, latest; later, latter, ladder; lateral, literal; lath, lathe; lather, leather; latitude, longitude; laudable, laudatory;

lay, lei; leach, leech; lead, lead, led; leak, leek; lean, lien; leased, least; leeward, windward; lend, loan, borrow; lesson, lessen; let, leave; levee, levy; liable, libel, slander; liable, likely; liar, lyre; liberal, libertarian, libertine, liberty; lichen, liken; lie, lye; lie, lay; lightening, lightning; linage, lineage; linear, lineal; links, lynx; liqueur, liquor; literal, littoral; literary, literate; litigation, mitigation; livid, vivid; llama, lama; lo, low; load, lode, lowed; loam, loan, lone; loath, loathe; local, locale; lock, loch; locks, lox; loom, loon, lune; loose, lose; loot, lute; lore, lower; lucre, looter; lumbar, lumber; lung, lunge; luxurious, luxuriant