Which or Witch?

What is the difference between which and witch?

Which is used to request or present specifying information. (It can be used as a pronoun or an adjective.)

Which is best?
Which team is won?
They made lasagne, which is my favorite meal.

The noun witch denotes a woman who performs magic with spells and potions.

Witches are commonly portrayed to have wrinkled skin, pimples, and pointy hats.

Which

The word which can be used used to request specifying information (i.e., to ask a question) or to give specifying information. When which is used to ask a question, it will be an interrogative pronoun or an interrogative adjective. When it is used to give information, it will be a relative pronoun.

Examples:

Which are acceptable?

which

Which country held last year's contest?

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country

The front wheel fell off Paul's new car, which he was driving at the time.

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Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. (Julius Caesar)

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The big question with which is whether to precede it with a comma or not.

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Witch

The noun witch denotes a woman who performs magic using spells, potions, and the invocation of spirits.

Examples:

Probably the most obvious characteristic of a witch is the ability to cast a spell.
From 1645–1663, about eighty people throughout England's Massachusetts Bay Colony were accused of being witches.

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Only a witch can get an itch.

WH-PRONOUNS

Which is one of the wh-pronouns. The wh-pronouns are either interrogative pronouns or relative pronouns. Other common ones are:

what
which
where
when
who
whom
whose

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