When transcribing and typing, it's rather difficult to distinguish similar sounding words called homonyms. Transcribers' ignorance of its individual meaning adds to the confusion.
Excellent transcriptionist with excellent English grammar may not face such problems. But, if that's not you, check the list below and learn their meanings.
The trick is simply to know what each word means and, to always keep in mind the context or subject matter you are transcribing about.
Here is a list of homonyms and their meanings in bracket to help you distinguish between each other.
Accept (receive) v Except (leave out)
Access (approach) v Excess (too much)
Adapt (change) v Adopt (choose)
Advice (noun) v Advise (verb)
Affect (influence) v Effect (result)
Allot (distribute) v A lot (a large amount)
Allude (suggest) v Elude (escape)
Allusion (suggestion) v Illusion (deception)
Altar (church table) v Alter (change)
All together (everyone) v Altogether (entirely)
Ascent (climb) v Assent (agree)
Always (at all times) v All ways (all methods)
Bare (uncovered) v Bear (carry, animal)
Bazaar (market) v Bizarre (weird)
Birth (childbearing) v Berth (place of rest)
Board (plank) v Bored (uninterested)
Born (given birth to) v Borne (carried)
Break (smash, split) v Brake (stopping device)
Breath (noun) v Breathe (verb)
Canvas (fabric) v Canvass (examine)
Capital (city, money) v Capitol (building)
Censor (prohibit) v Sensor (measuring)
Chose (past tense) v Choose (present tense)
Coarse (rough) v Course (way, path)
Compliment (praise) v Complement (complete)
Conscience (morals) v Conscious (aware)
Council (committee) v Counsel (advice, advisor)
Curser (swearer) v Cursor (computer)
Device (noun) v Devise (verb)
Dairy (milk farm) v Diary (daily book)
Dessert (sweet food) v Desert (dry land)
Dissent (disagreement) v Descent (move down)
Dual (two parts) v Duel (fight)
Dye (color) v Die (expire)
Elicit (draw forth) v Illicit (improper)
Eminent (noteworthy) v Imminent (impending)
Ensure (make certain) v Insure (indemnify)
Envelope (noun) v Envelop (verb)
Everyday (ordinary) v Every day (each day)
Exercise (activity) v Exorcise (drive out)
Fair (just) v Fare (food, fee)
Faze (disturb) v Phase (stage)
Formerly (earlier) v Formally (by a pattern)
Forth (forward) v Fourth (4th)
Gorilla (ape) v Guerilla (fighter)
Hear (perceive) v Here (in this place)
Heard (perceived) v Herd (group of animals)
Heroin (drug) v Heroine (lead character)
Hole (opening) v Whole (entire)
Holy (sacred) v Wholly (entirely)
Human (people) v Humane (merciful)
Immigrate (come in) v Emigrate (leave)
Its (possessive of it) v It’s (contraction of it is)
Know (be aware) v No (negative)
Lead (metal, guide) v Led (guided)
Lesson (instruction ) v Lessen (reduce)
Lightning (storm) v Lightening (reduce)
Maybe (perhaps) v May be (could be)
Meat (food) v Meet (encounter)
Miner (excavator) v Minor (under age)
Pair (two) v Pear (fruit) v Pare (peel, reduce)
Passed (went by) v Past (earlier time)
Peace (absence of war) v Piece (part)
Peer (look, equal) v Pier (pillar)
Personal (individual) v Personnel (staff)
Perspective (view) v Prospective (future)
Prophecy (noun) v Prophesy (verb)
Plain (simple, flat land) v Plane (smooth, flying)
Pray (ask) v Prey (hunt)
Principle (rule) v Principal (head, money)
Quiet (silent) v Quite (very much)
Rain (precipitation) v Reign (rule) v Rein (horse)
Right (license, proper) v Write (compose)
Road (path) v Rode (past tense ride)
Scene (setting) v Seen (perceived)
Sense (perception) v Since (from that time)
Shone (past tense shine) v Shown (displayed)
Stationary (still) v Stationery (paper)
Straight (not curved) v Strait (narrow place)
Tact (diplomacy) v Tack (approach)
Taut (tight) v Taught (past tense teach)
Than (comparison) v Then (at that time)
Their (poss.) v There (place) v They’re (they are)
Threw (past of throw) v Through (by way of)
To (in direction of) v Two (2) Too (also)
Waist (on the torso) v Waste (squander)
Weak (feeble) v Week (seven days)
Weather (atmospheric) v Whether (if, in case)
Wear (carry on body) v Where (in that place)
Which (that one) v Witch (sorceress)
Whose (possessive) v Who’s (who is)
Write (inscribe) v Right (correct)
Your (possessive) v You’re (you are)
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