brothersvsmoraWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#15,849
“brothers” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
65752
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature brothers mora
Definition Plural des Substantivs brother 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: brothers vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set brothers and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. brothers runs 8 letters (CCVCCVCC) against mora's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
brothers
4 ch
mora

Part-of-speech tell for brothers / mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: brothers is anoun and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65752, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

brothers is recorded at frequency rank #15,849, 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 65752, this pair ranks #596,214 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of brothers vs mora

Shared letters: or. Private to "brothers": behst. Private to "mora": am.

"brothers" · 8 letters · shape CCVCCVCC  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • brothers ← bbrothers · borthers · brohters · brotehrs · brotherrs · brotherss · brothesr · brothhers
  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "brothers" for "mora" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "brothers" is a noun and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "brothers" or "mora" show up more?
"brothers" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,849 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.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "brothers" 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 #596,214 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "brothers" 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 #596,214 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