Multinyms - Triple/Quadruple/Quintuple/Sextuple Homonyms

According to some definitions, a homonym is a word with the same pronunciation as, but different meaning than, another word. Thus, homonyms come in pairs. However, some remarkable homonyms come in triples, as you may here behold.

Triplets:

• adds, ads, adze
• aisle, I'll, isle
• ait, ate, eight
• aye, eye, I
• bald, balled, bawled
• beau, bo, bow
• bight, bite, byte
• bold, bolled, bowled
• bole, boll, bowl
• born, borne, bourn
• borough, burro, burrow
• braise, brays, braze
• cedar, ceder, seeder
• ceiling, sealing, seeling
• cent, scent, sent
• chord, cord, cored
• cinque, sink, sync
• cite, sight, site
• coal, cole, kohl
• coarse, corse, course
• coign, coin, quoin
• crews, cruise, cruse
• dew, do, due
• earn, erne, urn
• ewes, use, yews
• fain, fane, feign
• faro, farrow, pharoah
• firs, furs, furze
• flew, flu, flue
• for, fore, four
• frees, freeze, frieze
• gild, gilled, guild
• heal, heel, he'll
• hoard, horde, whored
• holey, holy, wholly
• knead, kneed, need
• knot, naught, not
• knows, noes, nose
• liar, lier, lyre
• load, lode, lowed
• mead, Mede, meed
• meat, meet, mete
• mhorr, moor, more
• nay, nee, neigh
• pair, pare, pear
• palate, palette, pallet
• polar, poler, poller
• poor, pore, pour
• rain, reign, rein
• raise, rays, raze
• raiser, razer, razor
• rapped, rapt, wrapped
• read, rede, reed
• road, rode, rowed
• rood, rude, rued
• sign, sine, syne
• sew, so, sow
• Sol, sole, soul
• sold, soled, souled
• Sioux, sou, sue
• teas, tease, tees
• to, too, two
• toad, toed, towed
• vail, vale, veil
• vain, vane, vein
• vial, vile, viol
• wail, wale, whale
• ware, wear, where
• weal, we'll, wheel
• weather, wether, whether

Quadruplets:

• bi, buy, by, bye
• carat, caret, carrot, karat
• cees (C's), seas, sees, seize
• cense, cents, scents, sense
• cere, sear, seer, sere
• eau, o, oh, owe
• ewe, yew, you, U
• gnu, knew, new, nu
• heigh, hi, hie, high
• idle, idol, idyl, idyll
• oar, o'er, or, ore
• peak, peek, peke, pique
• praise, prase, prays, preys
• rhos, roes, rose, rows
• right, rite, wright, write;
• weald, wealed, wheeled, wield;

Quintuplets:

Sextuplets:

• air, are, e'er, ere, err, heir

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