Abet vs. Bet — What's the Difference?

To approve, encourage, and support (an action or a plan of action); urge and help on.

Risk a sum of money or valued item against someone else's on the basis of the outcome of an unpredictable event such as a race or game

To urge, encourage, or help (a person)

Used to express certainty

(transitive) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.

An act of betting a sum of money

(transitive) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action); to maintain.

An agreement usually between two parties that the one who has made an incorrect prediction about an uncertain outcome will forfeit something stipulated to the other; a wager

To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.

An amount or object risked in a wager; a stake

(obsolete) To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.

One on which a stake is or can be placed

(obsolete) Fraud or cunning.

A plan or an option considered with regard to its probable consequence

(obsolete) An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.

(Informal) A view or opinion, especially about something that cannot be known at the present time

To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; - used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.

To stake (an amount, for example) in a bet.

To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; - in a good sense.

To make a bet with

To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.

To make a bet on (a contestant or an outcome).

Act of abetting; aid.

To maintain confidently, as if making a bet

Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing

To make or place a bet.

A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).

A candidate (for elections and pageants).

A degree of certainty.

Alternative form of beth

To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.

To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.

(poker) To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round.

(knitting) between

That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager.

To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager.

An early form of Better.

The money risked on a gamble

The act of gambling;

Maintain with or as if with a bet;

Stake on the outcome of an issue;

Have faith or confidence in;