articlevsmoraTell them apart

Quick tell: article is a noun, mora is an unknown, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“article” is a noun and “mora” is an unknown - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#24,613
“article” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
74516
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature article mora
Definition Artikel 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: article vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set article and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

7 ch
article
4 ch
mora

Part-of-speech tell for article / mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: article is anoun and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74516, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

article is recorded at frequency rank #24,613, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. mora is at rank #49,903, tagged as anunknown, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 74516, this pair ranks #331,419 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of article vs mora

Shared letters: ar. Private to "article": ceilt. Private to "mora": mo.

"article" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • articlearitcle · arrticle · artcile · articcle · articel · articlle · artilce · artticle
  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "article" and "mora" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "article" is a noun and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "article" or "mora" show up more?
"article" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,613 in our German list, against #49,903 for "mora". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "article" and "mora". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "article" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mora" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #331,419 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "article" and "mora" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mora vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #331,419 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list