camevsmoraWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#37,428
“came” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
87331
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature came mora
Definition Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs come 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: came vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set came and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. came and mora follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
came
4 ch
mora

Part-of-speech tell for came / mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: came is averb and moraanunknown. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 87331, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

came is recorded at frequency rank #37,428, classified as averb, 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 87331, this pair ranks #81,741 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of came vs mora

Shared letters: am. Private to "came": ce. Private to "mora": or.

"came" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • came ← acme · caem · camme · ccame · cmae
  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "came" for "mora" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "came" is a verb and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "came" or "mora" show up more?
"came" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #37,428 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.

What to do next

Pair "came" vs "mora" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "came" 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 #81,741 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "came" 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 #81,741 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