# ba vs but

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### ba
*noun · frequency rank #5,761*
A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.

### but
*preposition · IPA /ˈbʌt/ · frequency rank #25*
Apart from, except (for), excluding.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ba-vs-but