bay vs niche

bay and niche both are nouns.

bay is an adjective but niche is not an adjective.

bay is a verb but niche is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bay	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
niche	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, niche is a hypernym of bay; that is, niche is a word with a broader meaning than bay:

bay: a small recess opening off a larger room
niche: an enclosure that is set back or indented

Other hypernyms of bay include recess.

bay (noun)	niche (noun)
a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color	an enclosure that is set back or indented
a small recess opening off a larger room	a small concavity
a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose	a position particularly well suited to the person who or organization which occupies it
a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital	(ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)
the sound of a hound on the scent
an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf
small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors

bay (adjective)	niche (adjective)
(used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color

bay (verb)	niche (verb)
bark with prolonged noises, of dogs
utter in deep prolonged tones

Difference between bay and niche

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