Can you name the homophones for the clue answers to complete this four letter word ladder?

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Enter a homophone in the box below
Correctly named homophones will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
For the answer to each clue, instead type a homophone (word that sounds the same but is spelled differently) for that answer.
NOTE: Depending on where you live, not all of these words may not be strict homophones to your ear.

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Clue	Homophone	Answer
Has the answers		KNOWS
Propels a dinghy		ROWS
Composed a letter		WROTE
Watery castle fortification		MOAT
Cut the grass		MOWED
Female servant		MAID
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Clue	Homophone	Answer
2020 will have 366		DAYS
Bucks' mates		DOES
A demand for payment		DUN
Daybreaks		DAWNS
Phoenix NBA team		SUNS
Large wine casks		TUNS
Hauls away a car		TOWS

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Word Ladder: Homophones Quiz

by caramba

Created May 21, 2011 in Just For Fun
Featured Nov 3, 2011
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	jrevenig:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 04:07 GMT	5 points
	Seriously one of the coolest and trippiest word ladders ever! Great job!

	caramba:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 04:22 GMT	2 points
	Y'know, sometimes it's the littlest things that can brighten up your day just enough. I just noticed that someone came back and re-rated my quiz up one orb...thanks!

	evilcheeba:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 04:36 GMT	1 point
	That was a fun one.

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	caramba:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 05:18 GMT	10 points
	@cfrs15: How do you pronounce the plural of a female deer? @PublicEnemy: I don't think many rich folks have waitresses for servants (servers, maybe).

	TimeAndTide:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 05:19 GMT	5 points
	@cfrs15: Here 'does' is the plural of 'doe', a female deer ('buck' being a male deer), not the third person singular of 'to do'. I agree with jrevenig that this is a really cool idea for a word ladder. One minor criticism though: 'dons' and 'dawns' are only regionally homophones. I.e., while some parts of the English-speaking world pronounce these words alike, many other parts pronounce them differently, with the vowel sound in 'dons' being like the 'a' in 'father' rather than like the 'aw' in 'dawns'. Otherwise well done.

	caramba:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 06:04 GMT	0 points
	@bTimeAndTide: Unfortunately, for this type of puzzle, you could probably for each clue, find a region where the answers are not strict homophones. But where I live, dawn and don are pronounced exactly the same. (and the a in father is pronounced ike the aw in dawn).

	smartster:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 06:26 GMT	6 points
	@cfrs15: In my parts of the world, the sounds in father and dawns are rawther indistiguishable.

	tstenz:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 06:34 GMT	4 points
	Where are you from caramba? Dawns and dons definitely are not homophones in the Midwest :D

	montylaw:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 08:04 GMT	-1 points
	Too many regional differences in pronunciation.

	ari18:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 08:27 GMT	2 points
	@tstenz: really? I'm from MN an I say them the same... I think people sometimes just say things a little differently even when they're from the same region, but in order for fun quizzes like this to work you have to just sort of take that there will be pronunciation differences as a given. This was a fun twist on the format!

	Big_E:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 10:26 GMT	-2 points
	I have never heard of a MOTE. Nor do I know anyone who pronounces DON and DAWN the same. Dawn (Don) Corleone?

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	Magso:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 11:37 GMT	9 points
	In the UK dawn rhymes with 'or', and don rhymes with 'top'. But then that depends on how you pronounce those two words I suppose!

	Isstvan:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 12:54 GMT	11 points
	My wife, from Kentucky, can not hear a difference between Don and Dawn. I'm from Chicago and can't understand how they are supposed to sound the same.

	Go_Phils:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 13:48 GMT	2 points
	No way "dons" and "dawns" are homophones.

	sjwiner68:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 14:21 GMT	-2 points
	For "Demand for Payment" - why wouldn't LEAN and LIEN also be accurate? Better IMHO than done and dun

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	caramba:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 14:44 GMT	1 point
	@Go_Phils: Didn't you mean to say "No way "dons" and "dawns" are homophones where I live"? The quiz has always said regional pronunciations may differ, in the game notes. Sometimes you just have to open up your parameters a bit and go for something close, or work back to it from following words and say "huh, other people must pronounce this differently", not "other people pronounce this wrong".

	thwgt:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 14:57 GMT	8 points
	@sjwiner68 and deugea: Because they don't fit the word ladder.

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	ezois:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 15:28 GMT	1 point
	Don and dawn are not pronounced alike here. Pronouncing them alike isn't wrong, but most people won't think of it.

	TimeAndTide:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 15:51 GMT	2 points
	@sjwiner68: As a verb, 'dun' means 'make persistent demands (of someone), esp. for payment of a debt', whereas 'lien' means 'a right to keep possession of property belonging to another person until a debt owed by that person is discharged'. So a lien isn't exactly a demand for payment so much as it is a temporary penalty for non-payment. Similar in effect, but semantically different, I think. I think done/dun fits the clue better, but it's cool that you found such a close alternative.

	ChileNoseJam:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 16:01 GMT	3 points
	@MagneticNorth: the point of a word ladder is that each answer has only one letter different from the previous one. Neither "ORES" nor "SALE" has only one letter different from "NOSE".

	courtneyyy:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 18:48 GMT	2 points
	my grandfather's name was don(ald) and my aunt's dawn, and i was a twentysomething before i realized she was probably named after him, lol.

	davetrain:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 19:25 GMT	1 point
	@caramba: Where I'm from (South Carolina), all of these proposed homophones are in fact homophones. However, even if they weren't, I wouldn't be as upset as all of these provincial crazies who have no idea what regionalism means, or apparently how a word ladder works. Also, some don't help by withholding where "here" is, and by giving examples that would also be pronounced regionally. Awesome quiz, don't listen to the haters. And I love the URL.

	Penny:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 20:11 GMT	2 points
	I love quizzes that shed light on how the brain works. I'm so visual (spelling-oriented) in my word knowledge that at first it was hard work to make myself focus on the sound instead, but it got easier as I went along. Fascinating. Thanks!

	Figment:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 20:52 GMT	2 points
	Very clever word ladder. Well done. More please!

	tstenz:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 21:48 GMT	1 point
	It's funny how pronunciation can vary so much... this is exactly how I felt when I found out that "bag" and "vague" weren't supposed to rhyme.

	GrapesAndMilk:	Nov 3rd, 2011 at 23:54 GMT	-3 points
	Can you accept "DEAR" and "DEER"?

	theeman8866:	Nov 4th, 2011 at 00:37 GMT	0 points
	i should really read directions before playing. i kept trying nos and maize but they wouldnt work and i was very confused. i got it the last 15 seconds of the quiz. lawl. and to put in my 2 cents with the argument above don and dawn is the same pronunciation where i live

	tface23:	Nov 4th, 2011 at 02:07 GMT	-2 points
	Why not oars and ores?

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	GrapesAndMilk:	Nov 4th, 2011 at 05:19 GMT	1 point
	About my previous comment... I didn't notice it was a word ladder.