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 ?
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!
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 !
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