常见英语单词发音错误：读音常易混淆的英语常用词
常见英语单词发音错误：读音常易混淆的英语常用词feel fill | feet fit | fist feast | five fife | flesh flash |fairly fairy | four fall | fan fang | fat fate | father farther fodder | eager eagle | east yeast | effect affect | envelope envelop |except excerpt | expense expanse | eyes ice | face faith | fail fell |
中学英语词汇基本上都是英语中的常用词或者说是高频词。高考考纲收录了大约3500单词。这些词汇中，有些词有多种词性，且不同词性的读音不一样，对中国学生来说，虽然不见得会写错，但却非常容易混淆它们的读音。
读音混淆了有什么后果？一般来说，这种情况大概就像我们平时读错或说错字的结果一样。在特定语境中出现，听话的人一般都不会解读错误。不过，这多少反映了个人语言基本功的问题。
下面成对列举的单词基本上都是常用词，且其读音比较容易混淆，共计680条，值得平时在学习中注意。由于有同形异音词，所以在这种情况下标记了词性，以帮助判断发音。例如record作为名词和动词的发音就不一样。当名词时，其重音在第一个音节上；当动词时，其重音在第二个音节上。
由于数量较多，所以分几篇展示，以便阅读。下面各组词之间的“|”符号是分隔符。两个分隔符之间的词在发音上容易被混淆。
eager eagle | east yeast | effect affect | envelope envelop |
except excerpt | expense expanse | eyes ice | face faith | fail fell |
fairly fairy | four fall | fan fang | fat fate | father farther fodder |
feel fill | feet fit | fist feast | five fife | flesh flash |
flower flour floor | foot food | force false | form foam | former formal |
forward foreword | found fond | fox forks folks | full fool | gas guess |
girl gull gill | goal gall | gone gong | good gourd | grandma grammar |
green grin | hail hell | hall hole whole | ham hem | hang hung |
hat hate | head had | heat hit | hill heel heal | his hiss | holy holly
home whom | honour owner | house horse hoarse | human humane |
idea ideal | ill eel | impatient in-patient | imprudent impudent |
increase n. increase v. | insult n. insult v. | invalid n. invalid adj. | just jest |
kill keel | king keen kin | kiss keys | labor label | lake lack |
lane lain laying | land lend | lawn loan lone | lead n. lead v. |
leather ladder | led lad | leg lag | less lass | letter latter later |
life live knife | lightning lightening | line lion lying | little litter |
live leave leaf | liver lever | long lawn | look lock luck |
lose loose loss | man men | many money | mark mock |
marry merry Mary | mask musk | mass mess | met mat |
minute n. minute adj. | mood mode | moral morale | mouth mouse |
much march | must mast | naughty knotty | neck knack | nervous nerves |
night light | none nun non- | not nut naught |
