# In English, any words that are homophones except for voiced "TH"?
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**Created:** [August 17, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-english-any-words-that-are-homophones-except-for-voiced-th/593026 "2011-08-17T14:04:51Z")
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### Author:  [@EdwardLost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EdwardLost)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-english-any-words-that-are-homophones-except-for-voiced-th/593026/1 "2011-08-17T14:04:51Z")
Are there any two word in English that would be pronounced exactly the same except that one has a voiced “TH” where the other has an unvoiced “TH”?
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-english-any-words-that-are-homophones-except-for-voiced-th/593026/2 "2011-08-17T14:06:05Z")
Either vs ether (in some pronunciations)
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### Author:  [@vd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vd)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-english-any-words-that-are-homophones-except-for-voiced-th/593026/3 "2011-08-17T14:22:31Z")
teeth/teethe
thee/the (sometimes)
thistle/this’ll 😉
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### Author:  [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-english-any-words-that-are-homophones-except-for-voiced-th/593026/4 "2011-08-17T14:34:36Z")
> [@vd](#):
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> teeth/teethe
This is a general rule with english nouns ending with the voiced ‘th’ when they are transformed into verbs. So we see the same thing with oath (n) and oath (v) for example. In many cases the final noun is also lengthened, is in “bath” and “bathed” or “cloth” and “clothed”.
So if the OP wants to make a list of all English nouns ending in the voiced “th”, they should have a similarly long list of homophones of the type they are looking for.
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### Author:  [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-english-any-words-that-are-homophones-except-for-voiced-th/593026/5 "2011-08-17T14:42:50Z")
sooth (as in “forsooth”) and soothe
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-english-any-words-that-are-homophones-except-for-voiced-th/593026/6 "2011-08-17T14:43:34Z")
Archaic but still in use in some contexts: thy / thigh
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-english-any-words-that-are-homophones-except-for-voiced-th/593026/7 "2011-08-17T14:50:42Z")
> [@Blake](#):
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> This is a general rule with english nouns ending with the voiced ‘th’ when they are transformed into verbs. So we see the same thing with oath (n) and oath (v) for example. In many cases the final noun is also lengthened, is in “bath” and “bathed” or “cloth” and “clothed”.
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> So if the OP wants to make a list of all English nouns ending in the voiced “th”, they should have a similarly long list of homophones of the type they are looking for.
There are a lot of them that fit this paradigm:
breath / breathe
loath / loathe
A little uncommon as a verb, but still existent: wreath / wreathe (to weave into a wreath/wreaths)
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### Author:  [@EdwardLost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EdwardLost)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-english-any-words-that-are-homophones-except-for-voiced-th/593026/8 "2011-08-17T18:47:23Z")
> [@vd](#):
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> teeth/teethe
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> thee/the (sometimes)
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> thistle/this’ll 😉
The last one was actually the only one I could come up with myself, but it didn’t quite cut it.
Teeth/teethe is good in that they’re both common, currently-used words.
I’m wondering, though, if there is an example where the words are current and also unrelated in meaning.
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### Author:  [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-english-any-words-that-are-homophones-except-for-voiced-th/593026/9 "2011-08-18T00:23:05Z")
> [@EdwardLost](#):
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> I’m wondering, though, if there is an example where the words are current and also unrelated in meaning.
See the first reply in post 2.