# ball vs bay

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### ball
*noun · IPA /bɔl/ · frequency rank #961*
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.

### bay
*noun · IPA /beɪ/ · frequency rank #1,889*
A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-02.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ball-vs-bay