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'Bat' is two unrelated words 

Homonyms share spelling and sound but come from different origins. The flying bat and the wooden bat arrived in English separately.

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'Lead' is a word with two lives

Spelled the same but pronounced differently, lead the metal and lead the verb are heteronyms, a special kind of homograph.

'Bank' has two separate roots

The river bank comes from a Norse word for ridge, the money bank from Italian banca, a moneylender's bench.