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Original FiveLetterWords practice. This is separate from the publisher's daily puzzle.
Find a differently spelled partner with the same complete pronunciation. Use the cited US pronunciations: ATE rhymes with EIGHT, and stressed FOR rhymes with FOUR for speakers with the horse–hoarse merger. Your dialect may differ. A word naming a food or animal by itself is not enough: the partner must use a different spelling.
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Worked solution
Sound like letter names
BEE · EYE · PEA · TEA
These can be heard as B, I, P and T.
Sound like numbers
WON · TOO · FOR · ATE
WON → one, TOO → two, stressed FOR → four and ATE pronounced /eɪt/ → eight, under the pronunciation scope stated above.
Sound like foods
MEET · BEAT · LEAK · PAIR
These can be heard as meat, beet, leek and pear.
Sound like animals
DEAR · HAIR · BARE · MUSCLE
DEAR → deer, HAIR → hare, BARE → bear and MUSCLE → mussel. Each differently spelled partner names an animal; a mussel is an animal even though it can also be food.
Ambiguity and review notes
Agent pronunciation review replaced HOARSE with BARE to remove an avoidable merger-dependent animal pair. FOR and ATE retain explicitly disclosed pronunciation conditions. BEE and PEA naming an animal or food does not satisfy the different-spelling-partner instruction. MUSSEL is both an animal and food; none of the other animal partners supplies a complete competing food partition under these stated ordinary senses.
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- Wiktionary contributors, English entry “ate”
ATE pronounced /eɪt/ matches EIGHT; the alternative /ɛt/ pronunciation does not.
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- Wiktionary contributors, English entry “bare”
BARE and bear are recorded homophones in the English pronunciation section.
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- Wiktionary contributors, English entry “beat”
BEAT and beet are recorded homophones in the English pronunciation section.
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- Wiktionary contributors, English entry “bee”
BEE and B are recorded homophones in the English pronunciation section.
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- Wiktionary contributors, English entry “dear”
DEAR and deer are recorded homophones in the English pronunciation section.
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- Wiktionary contributors, English entry “eye”
EYE and I are recorded homophones in the English pronunciation section.
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- Wiktionary contributors, English entry “for”
Stressed FOR matches FOUR for speakers with the horse–hoarse merger; weak FOR need not match.
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- Wiktionary contributors, English entry “hair”
HAIR and hare are recorded homophones in the English pronunciation section.
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- Wiktionary contributors, English entry “leak”
LEAK and leek are recorded homophones in the English pronunciation section.
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- Wiktionary contributors, English entry “meet”
MEET and meat are recorded homophones in the English pronunciation section.
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- Wiktionary contributors, English entry “muscle”
MUSCLE and mussel are recorded homophones in the English pronunciation section.
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- Wiktionary contributors, English entry “pair”
PAIR and pear are recorded homophones in the English pronunciation section.
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- Wiktionary contributors, English entry “pea”
PEA and P are recorded homophones in the English pronunciation section.
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- Wiktionary contributors, English entry “tea”
TEA and T are recorded homophones in the English pronunciation section.
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- Wiktionary contributors, English entry “too”
TOO and two are recorded homophones in the English pronunciation section.
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- Wiktionary contributors, English entry “won”
WON, the past tense of WIN pronounced /wʌn/, matches ONE in most accents.
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