CentsvsmoraTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#32,461
“Cents” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
82364
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Cents mora
Definition Stadtteil der Stadt Luxemburg 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: Cents vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set Cents and mora apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

5 ch
Cents
4 ch
mora

Role in the sentence - Cents and mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Cents is aname and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 82364, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Cents is recorded at frequency rank #32,461, classified as aname, 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 82364, this pair ranks #158,646 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Cents vs mora

Shared letters: none. Private to "Cents": censt. Private to "mora": amor.

"Cents" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Centsccents · cennts · censt · centss · centts · cetns · cnets · ecnts
  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Cents" for "mora" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Cents" is a name and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Cents" vs "mora" - which ranks higher?
"Cents" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32,461 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 "Cents" vs "mora" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Cents" 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 #158,646 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Cents" 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 #158,646 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