Words in B:
Bail / Bale
You bail the boat and bale the hay.
You bail the boat and bale the hay.
The expression bail out meanings to abandon a position or situation and bale is a bundle.
Baited / Bated
Baited usually refers to traps or snares.
When the reference is to someone who is hardly daring to breathe, the correct word is always bated.
Ball / Bawl
To bawl is to cry out loudly.
To bawl is to cry out loudly.
Ball is a toy or a plaything.
Bare (uncovered) / Bear (carry; the animal)
Bazaar (market) / Bizarre (weird)
Been / Gone
Been / Gone
Been is the past participle of be.
Gone is the past participle of go.
Been is used to describe completed visits, gone does not specify the return or completion of the visit.
Bemuse / Amuse
When you bemuse someone, you confuse them and not necessarily in an entertaining way.
Amuse is in positive sense.
Benefactor / Beneficiary
Benefactors give benefits.
Beneficiaries receive them.
Beside / Besides
Beside means at the side of.
Besides means in addition to.
Biannual / Biennial
Biannual means happening twice a year.
Biennial means every two years.
This is bit tricky!
Birth (childbearing) / Berth (place of rest)
Berth is a place to sleep on a boat or ship to train.
Berth is a place to sleep on a boat or ship to train.
Birth is the beginning (usually of life ).
Blonde / Blond
French words.
French words.
Blonde is feminine.
Blond is masculine.
Blunt / Brunt
Blunt is the opposite of sharp.
Blunt is the opposite of sharp.
Brunt means main force.
Board (plank; food) / Bored (drilled; uninterested)
Board is a long sheet of wood, also a group of people as in Board of Directors and as a verb means to go onto a ship, plane or other form of public transport.
Board is a long sheet of wood, also a group of people as in Board of Directors and as a verb means to go onto a ship, plane or other form of public transport.
Bored means not interested.
Bore / Boar / Boor
Bore as a noun is a boring or tiresome person or something that you don't like doing.
Bore as a noun is a boring or tiresome person or something that you don't like doing.
Bore as a verb is to drill.
Boar is a male pig.
Boor is a vulgar person.
Born (beginning of life) / Borne (carried)
Bought / Brought
Bought is the past tense of buy.
Bought is the past tense of buy.
Brought is the past tense of bring.
So, I bought (paid for) a load of topsoil, and a truck driver (delivered) it to my home.
Braise / Braze
Braise means to cook slowly in liquid (usually meat).
Braise means to cook slowly in liquid (usually meat).
Braze most commonly means to solder with an alloy of copper and zinc.
Breach / Breech
Breach is to break and breeches are worn by horse riders on their legs.
Breach is to break and breeches are worn by horse riders on their legs.
Break (smash, split) / Brake (stopping device)
Breath / Breathe
When you need to breathe, you take a breath.
Breathe is the verb, breath is the noun.
Bridal / Bridle
Bridal has to do with brides and weddings.
Bridle as a noun means a halter or restraint or to draw oneself up in the anger.
Broach / Brooch
A decorative pin is a brooch.
A decorative pin is a brooch.
To broach means to touch upon or start especially a topic.
By / Buy / Bye
By is a preposition meaning next to.
By is a preposition meaning next to.
Buy means purchase.
Bye means farewell or goodbye.
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