In the list below, the pairs which are minimal pairs, i.e. which are different by only one phoneme are in bold type.
- dart and cart
- ease and ooze
- not and knot (pronounced the same = homophones)
- main and mine
- present and presence
- low and cow (do not share a single phoneme)
- cough and dough (do not share a single phoneme)
- part and port
- knock and not
- see and saw
- finger and ringer (ringer contains neither /f/ nor /g/)
- painting and fainting