contentvsmoraWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#4,256
“content” frequency rank
#49,903
“mora” frequency rank
54159
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: content vs mora

Shared letters muted; letters that set content and mora apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. content runs 7 letters (CVCCVCC) against mora's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
content
4 ch
mora

Grammar separator: content vs mora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: content is anadjective and moraanunknown. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54159, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

content is recorded at frequency rank #4,256, classified as anadj, 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 54159, this pair ranks #1,029,822 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of content vs mora

Shared letters: o. Private to "content": cent. Private to "mora": amr.

"content" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "mora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • contentccontent · cnotent · conetnt · conntent · contennt · contentt · contetn · contnet
  • morammora · moar · morra · mroa · omra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "content" for "mora" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "content" is an adjective and "mora" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "content" or "mora" show up more?
"content" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,256 in our German list, against #49,903 for "mora". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "content" 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 #1,029,822 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "content" 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 #1,029,822 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