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Confusion of these two words is a spelling mistake that can happen because of pronunciation.
which is the much more common word. It is a relative pronoun.
witch is a noun which is much more rarely used in modern English - except in terms of horror films. It means a person (nearly always a woman) who has supernatural powers, often derived from the devil. In non-European cultures, witches are not always male, nor are they always bad, I understand.
