chorsvsmoraWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#35,693
“chors” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
85596
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature chors mora
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs chor 1. Person Singular Aorist Indikativ Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform marr „nehmen“

Letter map: chors vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set chors and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. chors runs 5 letters (CCVCC) against mora's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
chors
4 ch
mora

Grammar separator: chors vs mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: chors is averb and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 85596, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

chors is recorded at frequency rank #35,693, 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 85596, this pair ranks #105,981 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of chors vs mora

Shared letters: or. Private to "chors": chs. Private to "mora": am.

"chors" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • chors ← cchors · chhors · chorrs · chorss · chosr · chros · cohrs · hcors
  • mora ← mmora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "chors" and "mora" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "chors" is a verb and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "chors" or "mora" show up more?
"chors" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #35,693 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 "chors" and "mora". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "chors" 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 #105,981 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "chors" 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 #105,981 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