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Commonly Confused Words: Fair vs. Fare

What does each word mean? A fair is a travelling or periodic exhibition of stalls, rides, or games.  As an adjective, fair is used to describe something that is free of favouritism, cheating, or bias. The word can also be used to describe good weather, something that has a reasonable chance of happening, and skin and hair that is light-coloured.  Here is fair used in some example sentences: There’s a Ferris wheel at the funfair.  The farmer sold her cheeses at the fair.  Make sure you play in a fair way.  It was a fair winter’s day.  They thought they had a fair chance of winning The waiter had fair hair.  ...

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